19 September 2022
Your question
Please provide a copy of the council's Household Support Fund policy for the funding distributed to councils in October 2021.
The policy should outline how the council was going to disburse the funding and by what criteria.
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)?
3. Of the figure in question 2, how much did the council eventually provide to applicants?
£506,229
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?
5. How many applicants received funding under the parts of the Household Support Fund referred to in question 2?
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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
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?
8. How many referrals received funding under the parts of the Household Support Fund referred to in question 7?
9. How many referrals for funding under the parts of the Household Support Fund referred to in question 7 were rejected?
Your response
1. Lambeth's delegated decision report regarding funding for Oct 21 - April 22 can be found here: https://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgDecisionDetails.aspx?IId=69043&Opt=1.
2. £666,000
3. £506,229
4. 31 March 2022
5. Individual awards for qualifying support total 12074
6. Rejected awards total 18660
Lambeth's Household Support Scheme allows residents to apply for multiple forms of assistance in each application. Some or all requests may be accepted or rejected in any one application. The above information is the sum of all of the individual elements in each application.
7. £2,042,034
8. Lambeth supported a total of 53,358 residents through the Household Support Fund.
9. Lambeth does not hold this information.