Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the correspondence from the Minister for Employment to the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee relating to the Flexible Support Fund, dated 30 December 2021, if he will provide details of the Flexible Support Fund expenditure by category in each of the last five financial years.

The information has been published to the Work & Pensions Select Committee for 2018/19 to 2021/22;

21/22 FSF Report

20/21 FSF Report

19/20 FSF Report

18/19 FSF Report

Information for the 2017/18 financial year by category £’000;

Source: Hyperion

Figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.

The data provided in the above table forms part of the expenditure position reported within the DWP Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18.