Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has with (a) the Local Government Association and (b) leaders of local authorities on the potential merits of extending the Household Support Fund beyond March 2024.

The Government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way. Equality analysis was considered as part of the decision to implement the current Household Support Fund, which runs from April 2023 until the end of March 2024.