Discretionary Housing Payments
(asked on 2nd September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the Discretionary Housing Payment budget for 2022/23 has been spent.
This question was answered on 27th September 2022
Local authorities (LAs) administer the Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) scheme.
The latest DHP expenditure data held by DWP covers Quarter 1 (Q1) of financial year 2022-23 and is taken from voluntary expenditure returns from 253 out of 331, or 76%, of LAs in England and Wales.
This data indicates that those LAs who provided a return have spent 27% of their overall DHP budget in the first quarter of 2022-23.