Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance she has given to local authorities on the disbursement of the Household Support Fund for each of the three tranches of that Fund.

For each iteration of the Household Support Fund, the Government has issued a Grant Determination as well as written guidance for Local Authorities. For the current scheme, which runs 1 April – 30 September 2022, these documents, along with others relating to the scheme, can be found here: Household Support Fund: guidance for local councils - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). A further £421 million extension of the Household Support Fund is to be made available from October 2022. Guidance and individual Local Authority indicative allocations for this further extension to the Household Support Fund will be announced in due course.