Household Support Fund allocation (Tranche 7)

Household Support Fund allocation.

1. Please provide us with a copy of the management information return you are required to provide to the DWP for Tranche Seven of the Household Support Fund.

2. Please provide a breakdown of how tranche seven was spent:

a. Targeted Grants (by targeted grants we mean any direct grants/proactive support given to households that did not need to be applied)

b. Free School Meal Holiday Vouchers

c. Direct applications to the scheme (this means the amount that was open to application, but not through your local welfare assistance scheme)

d. Local Welfare Assistance Scheme

e. Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations

f. Advice Services

g. Other (please clarify)

3a. If you accepted applications to this fund how many did you receive?

b. How many applications were successful?

4. Excluding funding given to local welfare schemes or third-party organisations;

a.Excluding funding given to local welfare schemes or third-party organisations, how much of the HSF did you spend on helping people with furniture and appliances?

5. For tranche seven how much did you spend on:

a. Vouchers

b. Cash awards

c. Third party organisations

d. In kind support

e. Other

6. If you provide in kind support, what percentage would you estimate is spent on furniture and white goods?

7. Of the funds given to third party organisations, how much was given to organisations who provide furniture, white goods and furnishings?

8. Please provide us with a copy of your Crisis and Resilience Fund delivery plan that you are required to provide to the DWP for Year One of the CRF.

9. Do you plan on using the Crisis and Resilience Fund on furniture and appliance provision?

10. If you plan to use the Crisis and Resilience for furniture and appliance provision, please tick the boxes below to show which furniture/appliance types you will provide and whether these are new or preloved or whether you will be providing cash or vouchers for these items

Cash

Voucher

Item - New

Item -Preloved/second hand

Cooker

Fridge

Freezer

Fridge Freezer

1. Please see attached

2a. Proactive spend = £6,434,263

b. £0 with regard to Holiday vouchers. £7,442,022 for Household's with Children

c. £2,054,769 via applications

d. £0

e. Third party organization's = £629,668.00

f. £169,360.00

g. £158,891

3a. 20,590

b. 20,590

4. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this information

5a. £8,005,897

b. £169,870

c. £629,668

d. N/a e. £158,891

6. N/a

7. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this information

8. The deadline for submission of the CRF delivery plan is 1 July, LCC haven't finalised the plan yet so are unable to provide at this point

9. Not known at this stage

10. Not known at this stage

Should you require the attachment mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.