Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding his Department has allocated for discretionary housing payments to Solihull Council for the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24 financial years.

All Local Authorities (LA) will receive the same Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) funding in 2023/24 and 2024/25 as in 2022/23.

Solihull LA was allocated £239,499 DHP funding for 2022/23 and will be allocated the same amount for 2023/24.

This information is available at gov.uk. It can be found here for the year 2022/23 and here for the year 2023/24.

Since 2011, the Government has provided nearly £1.6 billion in DHPs to LAs to help support claimants who require further financial assistance with housing costs.