| Heading: |
Household Support Fund |
| Question ID: |
1757833 |
| UIN: |
25735 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4603 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Preet Kaur Gill
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| Asking Member handle: |
PreetKGillMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@PreetKGillMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her policy to allow Household Support Fund allocations to be used by local authorities to purchase (a) slow cookers and (b) kettles. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4083 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alison McGovern
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| Answering Member handle: |
Alison_McGovern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@Alison_McGovern
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
In England, the Household Support Fund is a scheme providing discretionary support to those most in need towards the cost of essentials, such as food, energy and water and to support with essentials linked to these for example, energy efficient items whic... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |