1.Please provide a copy of the council’s Household Support Fund policy for the funding distributed to councils in October 2021.
Please refer to this Household Support Fund Policy document
2. What was the value of the parts of the Household Support Fund provided to the council in October 2021 (or thereabouts) that the council made available to individual applicants (not referrals from third party organisations)?
£5,064,876.12
3. Of the figure in question 2, how much did the council eventually provide to applicants?
£4,394,725
4. If the council fully spent the figure in question 2, on what date(s) was this part(s) of the fund closed to new applicants?
The fund has been fully allocated to the various support gateways to deploy. In terms of funds spent the response in 3 applies. All the various support gateways closed on 31/03/22, when the scheme ended. Some may have closed slightly earlier as their funding was spent, but we do not hold specific data on this.
5. How many applicants received funding under the parts of the Household Support Fund referred to in question 2?
Devon County Council (DCC) does not hold the information relating to the number of applicants, but there were 173,754 financial support interactions with households over this funding period.
6. How many applications for funding under the parts of the Household Support Fund referred to in question 2 were rejected? Please provide any data the council holds on reasons for rejection
DCC does not hold this information, as it was not a specific reporting requirement of the fund.
7. What was the value of the parts of the Household Support Fund provided to the council in October 2021 (or thereabouts) that the council made available to referrals from council services or third party organisations, e.g. charities?
DCC does not hold this information, as it was not a specific reporting requirement of the fund.
8. How many referrals received funding under the parts of the Household Support Fund referred to in question 7?
DCC do not hold this information, we only hold the information as reported in Question 5.
9. How many referrals for funding under the parts of the Household Support Fund referred to in question 7 were rejected?
DCC does not hold this information, as it was not a specific reporting requirement of the fund.
10. Please provide a copy of the council’s Household Support Fund policy for the funding that is to be distributed to councils for April-September 2022.
DCC do not hold this information. We can tell you that Department for Work and Pensions usually publishes its finalised guidance on its public website. DCC has yet to finalise its policy approach, and is currently working with the 8 District/ City Councils and Citizen’s Advice Devon to inform the deployment approach for the Household Support Fund (April – September 2022).