FI15679

Request

Separately for the Household Support Fund; other discretionary local welfare assistance schemes (if your council has one in addition to the Household Support Fund); and the Holiday Activities and Food programme, please provide:

  • Total annual expenditure
  • Total annual number of applications
  • Total annual number of approvals
  • The type of awards made, and how many of each type of award were made
  • Demographics of who received support
    • by family type, in the following categories: couples with children, couples without children, single with children and single without children
    • and by age group in these categories: working-age families with children, working-age families without children, pensioner families

Please provide this information for financial years 2021-22 to 2024-25 (inclusive).

Response

Please note that we do not have a Local Welfare Assistance Scheme.  The Council received funding for Holiday Activities Food Programme in 2021, but the data is no longer held.  The information in respect of the Household Support Fund is as follows: 

 

2021/22

2022/23

2023/24

2024/25

Total annual expenditure

Data no longer held

£629,036.03

 

£256,793.73

£198, 362.03

Total annual number of applications

Data no longer held

6,888

7,807

Data not currently held – awaiting collation of information

Total annual number of approvals

Data no longer held

6,888

7,807

Data not currently held – awaiting collation of information

The type of awards made, and how many of each type of award were made

Data not held – administered by third party

Data not held – administered by third party

Data not held – administered by third party

Data not held – administered by third party

Demographics of who received support

 

Data not held – administered by third party

Data not held – administered by third party

Data not held – administered by third party

Data not held – administered by third party