Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to publish the initial findings of its evaluation of the Crisis and Resilience Fund; and whether this evaluation will include local authority-level and constituency-level data on parcel reliance and hardship applications.

The national evaluation of the Crisis and Resilience Fund is being commissioned. Plans for the publication of initial findings will be finalised in due course. The evaluation will assess delivery, impact and value for money, including how the Fund contributes to reducing the need for emergency food parcels. This will be looking at the fund as a whole, rather than at Local Authority or constituency level.

Separately, management information is being collected at the local authority level on spend, awards and refusals, which includes data on food support and reducing the need for emergency food parcels. This information is not collected at parliamentary constituency level.