Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding has been allocated to the Help to Claim Scheme.
The Department is providing £51 million (which includes £12 million to set up delivery in the run-up to April 2019) of funding to Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland to deliver the Help to Claim service from April 2019. This was announced by the Government, Citizen’s Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland and Government on 1 October 2018.