Research and analysis

Household Support Fund 3 management information for 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023

Updated 5 September 2023

Applies to England

Introduction

The third iteration of the Household Support Fund grant was made available from 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023 to support those most in need across England with the cost of

  • food
  • energy
  • water
  • other essential living needs

The total funding available across England for the relevant period was £421 million.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provided funding to county councils and unitary authorities, including metropolitan councils and London boroughs (“the Authorities”), under section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003.

The Authorities administered the scheme to provide assistance to vulnerable families with children, pensioners, disabled people, and other vulnerable households during the grant period. In line with previous Household Support Fund grants, the Barnett formula was applied in the usual way for the devolved administrations.

All 152 county councils and unitary authorities in England participated. The guidance enabled them to deliver the scheme through a variety of routes, including issuing grants to third parties, providing vouchers to households, or direct provision. County councils were encouraged to work together with district councils to provide support and ensure the funding met its objectives.

The grant was primarily allocated to support with the costs of food, energy, water and other essential living needs as described in the grant determination terms below:

a) the Authority is to ensure that the grant is primarily allocated to support with the costs of energy (for heating, lighting and cooking), food, water (for household purposes, including sewerage) and other essential living needs in accordance with the Scheme guidance

b) in exceptional circumstances of genuine emergency, the Authority may allocate grant funds to support with housing costs as set out in the Scheme guidance

c) the Authority is to use best endeavours to facilitate applications for assistance under the Scheme from individuals who are eligible for assistance in their area

The grant guidance was published on GOV.UK.

About these statistics

We’ve published the figures in this release:

See the Annex: Authority level MI tables for more information about the figures published in the tables.

The figures shown in this release are from the statement of spend (as of 10 August 2023) from the 152 English Authorities which participated in the Household Support Fund programme. At the time of delivery, Cumbria County Council was still acting as a single Unitary Authority.

The template for returning details of spend, the grant determination (describing the terms of the grant) and detailed guidance were published on GOV.UK.

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The following explains how we have applied the pillars of the Code in a proportionate way.

Trustworthiness

The figures were created following interest from Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers and Members of Parliament. We were unable to restrict access to the data ahead of the publication as the data has been used internally as Management Information (MI). They are being published now in order to give equal access to all those with an interest in them.

Quality

The data which underpins this information is taken directly and solely from the Statements of Spend returned to DWP by participating Authorities and the published grant determination for the scheme. DWP liaised with Authorities to validate the returns. Analysis of the Authority returns has undergone review by analysts and internal audit. The MI has also been reviewed and approved by the scheme’s project design group.

Value

Releasing this information serves the increased public interest in how Authorities have used grant funding from DWP to support those most in need to help with global inflationary challenges and the rising costs of living. The figures also help reduce the administrative burden of answering parliamentary questions, Freedom of Information requests and other forms of ad hoc enquiry and serves public interest.

Further information and feedback

Lead Statistician: Lottie Devaney
Analysts: Alex Wiatrowska

Contact the DWP Press Office if you have any questions or feedback.

Annex: Authority level MI tables

The following tables (1, 2, 3 and 4) have also been published in spreadsheet format.

Table 1: Grant Allocation and reported spend for the Household Support Fund 3 by Authority for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023

The first table shows the Authorities’ grant allocations and each Authority’s reported spend, the number of awards made, as well as the percentages of the award spent split by household types and the administration costs of the scheme for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023.

All MI as reported by Authorities in their declaration of spend for the HSF.

Authority Total HSF awarded (£) Spend (£) Number of awards % Award spent % Expenditure on families with children % Expenditure on families
with pensioners
% Expenditure on families
with a disabled person
% Spend on administration
Bath & North East Somerset UA £966,860.28 £ 966,860.28 12,903 100% 72% 1% 11% 2%
Bedford UA £ 1,201,485.00 £ 1,201,485.00 35,283 100% 71% 17% 0% 7%
Blackburn with Darwen UA £ 1,618,526.59 £ 1,618,526.59 10,226 100% 82% 4% 0% 3%
Blackpool UA £ 1,745,857.53 £ 1,745,857.00 81,484 100% 67% 11% 13% 6%
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole UA £ 2,653,367.04 £ 2,573,821.28 143,487 97% 72% 6% 13% 6%
Bracknell Forest UA £ 555,468.03 £ 555,468.03 9,072 100% 33% 24% 2% 7%
Brighton & Hove UA £ 2,140,360.89 £ 2,140,360.89 75,431 100% 73% 3% 13% 5%
Bristol UA £ 4,039,965.11 £ 4,039,965.00 294,746 100% 72% 4% 3% 6%
Buckinghamshire UA £ 2,399,190.54 £ 2,399,190.54 91,150 100% 72% 2% 2% 7%
Cambridgeshire £ 3,581,424.56 £ 3,581,424.56 105,797 100% 60% 16% 3% 10%
Central Bedfordshire UA £ 1,483,073.82 £ 1,483,073.82 42,313 100% 59% 7% 24% 8%
Cheshire East UA £ 2,203,892.10 £ 2,203,892.00 71,301 100% 58% 36% 0% 10%
Cheshire West and Chester UA £ 2,290,047.45 £ 2,290,047.45 45,373 100% 66% 14% 9% 9%
City of Nottingham UA £ 3,556,933.83 £ 3,465,862.00 168,707 97% 67% 6% 8% 6%
Cornwall UA £ 4,528,569.87 £ 4,528,569.87 50,668 100% 47% 34% 9% 3%
Cumbria £ 3,690,234.69 £ 3,690,234.69 70,623 100% 66% 3% 11% 7%
Darlington UA £ 913,853.75 £ 913,853.75 15,357 100% 60% 10% 15% 5%
Derby City UA £ 2,224,711.41 £ 2,224,711.41 100,332 100% 76% 2% 0% 2%
Derbyshire £ 5,404,080.90 £ 5,404,079.92 67,194 100% 49% 30% 11% 4%
Devon £ 5,064,876.12 £ 5,064,876.12 53,410 100% 69% 8% 12% 12%
Dorset UA £ 2,294,941.45 £ 2,294,941.45 58,112 100% 73% 8% 11% 6%
Durham UA £ 4,676,099.65 £ 4,676,099.65 81,186 100% 85% 3% 7% 1%
East Riding of Yorkshire UA £ 2,061,832.61 £ 2,061,832.61 12,388 100% 53% 7% 27% 6%
East Sussex £ 3,896,783.88 £ 3,896,783.00 75,637 100% 50% 19% 16% 5%
Essex £ 9,436,542.83 £ 9,436,542.83 260,468 100% 82% 2% 7% 3%
Gloucestershire £ 3,692,483.14 £ 3,692,483.14 89,602 100% 68% 4% 8% 9%
Halton UA £ 1,297,880.42 £ 1,269,022.00 54,516 98% 56% 34% 5% 5%
Hampshire £ 7,124,127.25 £ 7,124,127.25 185,943 100% 48% 4% 4% 5%
Hartlepool UA £ 993,021.25 £ 993,021.25 14,952 100% 49% 23% 0% 5%
Herefordshire UA £ 1,329,601.78 £ 1,329,601.78 24,628 100% 73% 7% 7% 6%
Hertfordshire £ 6,172,064.84 £ 6,172,064.84 539,885 100% 69% 15% 4% 1%
Isle of Wight UA £ 1,131,576.08 £ 1,131,576.08 24,277 100% 44% 29% 14% 4%
Isles of Scilly £ 11,130.10 £ 10,842.40 41 97% 34% 32% 0% 5%
Kent £ 11,065,380.80 £ 11,065,380.80 389,767 100% 70% 7% 12% 5%
Kingston upon Hull UA £ 3,038,293.68 £ 3,038,293.68 102,972 100% 53% 25% 14% 1%
Lancashire £ 9,678,235.22 £ 9,678,235.22 101,712 100% 64% 10% 11% 9%
Leicester City UA £ 3,429,353.16 £ 3,429,353.16 71,317 100% 66% 14% 8% 7%
Leicestershire £ 3,620,038.89 £ 3,620,038.89 100,128 100% 78% 2% 23% 6%
Lincolnshire £ 5,464,685.20 £ 5,464,685.20 47,601 100% 69% 19% 4% 4%
Luton UA £ 1,829,274.04 £ 1,829,173.00 30,880 100% 67% 0% 11% 5%
Middlesbrough UA £ 1,653,614.95 £ 1,653,614.95 27,259 100% 62% 18% 2% 6%
Milton Keynes UA £ 1,792,516.52 £ 1,792,000.00 80,762 100% 85% 1% 6% 8%
Norfolk £ 6,696,806.23 £ 6,696,806.23 195,765 100% 84% 3% 10% 5%
North East Lincolnshire UA £ 1,559,664.65 £ 1,559,664.65 23,241 100% 37% 36% 9% 0%
North Lincolnshire UA £ 1,323,892.77 £ 1,323,892.77 19,261 100% 43% 39% 16% 6%
North Somerset UA £ 1,307,847.79 £ 1,307,847.79 21,803 100% 44% 30% 17% 4%
North Yorkshire £ 3,537,549.92 £ 3,537,549.92 48,605 100% 24% 49% 3% 3%
North Northamptonshire £ 2,465,491.77 £ 2,461,727.99 70,677 100% 60% 15% 10% 6%
Northumberland UA £ 2,480,330.00 £ 2,480,330.00 56,863 100% 52% 16% 22% 4%
Nottinghamshire £ 5,646,450.03 £ 5,646,450.03 30,870 100% 36% 12% 47% 8%
Oxfordshire £ 3,361,256.14 £ 3,361,255.89 68,517 100% 57% 1% 2% 4%
Peterborough UA £ 1,824,636.27 £ 1,824,636.27 149,413 100% 68% 9% 10% 11%
Plymouth UA £ 2,294,796.82 £ 2,265,140.21 55,354 99% 74% 4% 16% 7%
Portsmouth UA £ 1,888,214.70 £ 1,888,214.70 22,975 100% 63% 2% 9% 5%
Reading UA £ 1,130,648.94 £ 1,130,648.94 7,883 100% 41% 32% 0% 5%
Redcar & Cleveland UA £ 1,296,381.17 £ 1,296,381.17 11,895 100% 25% 39% 9% 5%
Rutland UA £ 157,371.07 £ 157,371.07 3,163 100% 49% 31% 10% 10%
Shropshire UA £ 2,088,795.13 £ 2,088,795.13 30,199 100% 39% 6% 31% 6%
Slough UA £ 1,177,691.53 £ 1,177,691.53 19,624 100% 79% 3% 5% 6%
Somerset £ 3,820,415.56 £ 3,810,182.00 102,937 100% 79% 7% 9% 10%
South Gloucestershire UA £ 1,410,016.31 £ 1,410,016.00 26,722 100% 74% 6% 0% 6%
Southampton UA £ 2,222,676.23 £ 2,222,676.23 33,790 100% 74% 4% 17% 6%
Southend-on-Sea UA £ 1,413,078.83 £ 1,412,529.51 23,345 100% 75% 6% 5% 8%
Staffordshire £ 5,506,547.99 £ 5,506,547.99 150,296 100% 75% 8% 11% 9%
Stockton-on-Tees UA £ 1,685,873.97 £ 1,685,873.97 28,060 100% 27% 18% 30% 2%
Stoke-on-Trent UA £ 2,686,721.90 £ 2,686,721.90 76,203 100% 70% 3% 9% 4%
Suffolk £ 5,106,030.02 £ 5,106,030.02 51,045 100% 64% 13% 13% 4%
Surrey £ 5,290,829.72 £ 5,290,828.65 144,620 100% 69% 6% 16% 4%
Swindon UA £ 1,515,345.60 £ 1,515,345.60 33,477 100% 46% 28% 18% 3%
Telford and the Wrekin UA £ 1,514,547.04 £ 1,514,547.04 22,348 100% 57% 39% 2% 9%
The Medway Towns UA £ 2,262,463.11 £ 2,262,463.11 82,772 100% 69% 6% 24% 8%
Thurrock UA £ 1,295,040.81 £ 1,295,040.81 29,245 100% 81% 2% 5% 0%
Torbay UA £ 1,235,356.81 £ 1,235,356.81 30,552 100% 41% 22% 12% 9%
Warrington UA £ 1,440,750.42 £ 1,439,795.00 42,867 100% 51% 19% 0% 1%
Warwickshire £ 3,472,997.02 £ 3,472,997.02 102,056 100% 98% 5% 2% 4%
West Berkshire UA £ 694,849.63 £ 694,849.63 9,240 100% 25% 1% 21% 7%
West Sussex £ 4,870,362.11 £ 4,870,328.16 40,833 100% 70% 8% 14% 5%
Wiltshire UA £ 2,728,656.41 £ 2,728,656.41 71,449 100% 64% 3% 21% 2%
Windsor & Maidenhead UA £ 587,905.21 £ 587,905.21 4,141 100% 84% 2% 3% 8%
Wokingham UA £ 525,573.35 £ 525,573.35 18,156 100% 78% 7% 5% 12%
Worcestershire £ 3,949,139.19 £ 3,949,139.19 134,638 100% 58% 13% 15% 7%
York UA £ 1,037,906.47 £ 1,037,906.47 5,032 100% 49% 0% 0% 5%
Bolton £ 2,780,316.57 £ 2,780,316.57 102,763 100% 63% 14% 18% 2%
Bury £ 1,534,200.05 £ 1,534,200.05 20,894 100% 55% 1% 37% 4%
Manchester £ 6,453,163.20 £ 6,453,163.20 165,813 100% 61% 6% 24% 1%
Oldham £ 2,419,369.23 £ 2,419,369.23 102,157 100% 92% 3% 3% 1%
Rochdale £ 2,337,383.85 £ 2,337,383.00 104,508 100% 67% 21% 7% 4%
Salford £ 2,733,899.11 £ 2,733,899.11 55,969 100% 90% 2% 13% 12%
Stockport £ 2,163,129.71 £ 2,163,129.71 48,803 100% 58% 9% 16% 8%
Tameside £ 2,224,686.33 £ 2,220,847.73 1,209 100% 95% 1% 3% 5%
Trafford £ 1,458,074.48 £ 1,458,074.48 23,983 100% 88% 1% 0% 5%
Wigan £ 2,818,234.30 £ 2,818,234.30 46,931 100% 55% 34% 6% 5%
Knowsley £ 1,862,188.67 £ 1,862,188.67 63,890 100% 76% 8% 6% 7%
Liverpool £ 6,054,020.20 £ 6,054,020.00 101,935 100% 63% 6% 12% 1%
St Helens £ 1,779,580.89 £ 1,779,580.89 33,502 100% 56% 16% 21% 4%
Sefton £ 2,435,111.24 £ 2,435,111.00 77,408 100% 46% 26% 0% 5%
Wirral £ 3,049,345.09 £ 3,049,345.09 91,038 100% 64% 8% 5% 7%
Barnsley £ 2,351,263.96 £ 2,351,263.96 63,563 100% 38% 9% 15% 10%
Doncaster £ 2,989,273.08 £ 2,989,273.08 26,299 100% 53% 24% 11% 0%
Rotherham £ 2,489,029.87 £ 2,489,029.87 49,366 100% 68% 4% 4% 0%
Sheffield £ 5,203,825.56 £ 5,203,825.56 120,729 100% 71% 2% 5% 6%
Gateshead £ 1,836,629.95 £ 1,835,895.00 47,236 100% 72% 4% 9% 4%
Newcastle upon Tyne £ 2,898,403.85 £ 2,898,403.85 25,727 100% 46% 21% 8% 0%
North Tyneside £ 1,609,998.05 £ 1,609,998.05 42,293 100% 82% 1% 7% 4%
South Tyneside £ 1,484,854.01 £ 1,484,854.00 35,704 100% 45% 36% 5% 4%
Sunderland £ 2,673,561.91 £ 2,673,561.91 51,137 100% 45% 27% 20% 3%
Birmingham £ 12,791,135.04 £ 12,791,135.04 153,268 100% 57% 2% 0% 7%
Coventry £ 3,224,222.30 £ 3,224,222.30 78,792 100% 73% 3% 13% 2%
Dudley £ 2,625,519.07 £ 2,625,519.07 73,093 100% 67% 6% 7% 5%
Sandwell £ 3,471,442.28 £ 3,471,442.28 87,945 100% 71% 0% 5% 5%
Solihull £ 1,408,359.07 £ 1,360,031.17 41,920 97% 51% 7% 31% 9%
Walsall £ 2,819,810.19 £ 2,819,810.00 22,473 100% 80% 3% 6% 5%
Wolverhampton £ 2,631,877.25 £ 2,631,877.25 64,995 100% 58% 2% 7% 5%
Bradford £ 5,694,487.83 £ 5,694,487.83 213,347 100% 46% 21% 2% 2%
Calderdale £ 1,833,003.46 £ 1,833,003.46 37,046 100% 66% 2% 29% 3%
Kirklees £ 3,702,823.27 £ 3,702,823.27 46,392 100% 71% 3% 9% 8%
Leeds £ 7,098,648.16 £ 7,098,648.00 146,592 100% 45% 5% 18% 3%
Wakefield £ 3,124,926.90 £ 3,124,926.90 29,880 100% 38% 33% 26% 1%
City of London £ 63,080.28 £ 32,996.93 93 52% 42% 2% 32% 9%
Camden £ 2,006,931.89 £ 2,006,931.89 68,213 100% 87% 3% 7% 5%
Greenwich £ 2,378,692.91 £ 2,378,692.91 74,408 100% 65% 6% 21% 3%
Hackney £ 2,822,258.58 £ 2,822,258.58 38,970 100% 75% 4% 5% 9%
Hammersmith & Fulham £ 1,414,374.97 £ 1,414,374.97 40,674 100% 58% 21% 6% 5%
Islington £ 2,218,159.62 £ 2,218,159.62 58,253 100% 59% 7% 11% 1%
Kensington & Chelsea £ 1,180,369.12 £ 1,180,369.12 6,785 100% 62% 36% 2% 14%
Lambeth £ 2,720,637.01 £ 2,720,637.01 34,791 100% 70% 1% 3% 3%
Lewisham £ 2,668,537.62 £ 2,668,537.62 50,267 100% 46% 1% 43% 2%
Southwark £ 2,734,366.02 £ 2,734,366.02 43,839 100% 43% 9% 0% 4%
Tower Hamlets £ 2,996,279.40 £ 2,996,279.00 21,392 100% 9% 1% 28% 8%
Wandsworth £ 2,069,485.13 £ 2,069,485.12 74,944 100% 75% 7% 5% 2%
Westminster £ 1,951,507.12 £ 1,951,507.12 32,722 100% 64% 15% 14% 2%
Barking & Dagenham £ 2,162,051.52 £ 2,162,051.52 54,463 100% 77% 9% 7% 10%
Barnet £ 2,455,182.90 £ 2,455,182.90 18,407 100% 79% 10% 1% 1%
Bexley £ 1,542,309.65 £ 1,542,000.00 23,351 100% 79% 2% 5% 6%
Brent £ 2,781,222.28 £ 2,781,222.28 35,129 100% 43% 1% 12% 6%
Bromley £ 1,867,882.58 £ 1,867,882.58 59,642 100% 59% 7% 29% 8%
Croydon £ 3,013,689.49 £ 3,013,689.49 107,561 100% 86% 1% 4% 1%
Ealing £ 2,658,804.97 £ 2,651,804.73 65,133 100% 72% 2% 0% 9%
Enfield £ 2,847,994.64 £ 2,847,994.64 105,490 100% 51% 14% 8% 1%
Haringey £ 2,406,671.72 £ 2,406,671.72 35,737 100% 73% 2% 5% 8%
Harrow £ 1,476,707.18 £ 1,476,707.18 49,999 100% 77% 10% 4% 10%
Havering £ 1,648,150.98 £ 1,648,150.00 38,869 100% 59% 17% 17% 8%
Hillingdon £ 2,069,342.07 £ 2,069,342.07 54,932 100% 76% 7% 1% 0%
Hounslow £ 2,042,396.17 £ 2,042,396.17 87,283 100% 93% 5% 0% 1%
Kingston upon Thames £ 862,867.15 £ 862,867.15 15,544 100% 53% 5% 8% 1%
Merton £ 1,186,607.26 £ 1,186,567.42 16,870 100% 74% 16% 6% 1%
Newham £ 3,339,194.75 £ 3,339,194.00 95,317 100% 71% 12% 11% 10%
Redbridge £ 1,965,979.20 £ 1,965,979.00 38,849 100% 72% 2% 5% 8%
Richmond upon Thames £ 836,356.66 £ 836,356.66 19,802 100% 71% 4% 12% 9%
Sutton £ 1,155,788.99 £ 1,154,950.00 31,058 100% 75% 11% 0% 2%
Waltham Forest £ 2,327,527.60 £ 2,327,527.60 53,678 100% 70% 2% 2% 8%
West Northamptonshire £ 2,599,628.73 £ 2,599,628.00 79,986 100% 67% 6% 9% 9%
Totals £421,000,000.03 £420,663,243.65 10,149,873 100% 63% 11% 10% 5%

Notes to Table 1:

  • total GBP (£) Household Support Fund 3 awarded. This is the total Award made to Authorities as described in the Grant Determination for the scheme covering the period of 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023
  • all spend statistics derived from Individual Authority’s Statement of spend as of 10 August 2023 and as described in the scheme’s detailed guidance
  • totals may not sum to 100% as Authority spend has been capped to remove any contributions made by Authorities using their own funds
  • number of awards is as reported by Authorities; it may not represent the number of people helped as some may have received multiple awards
  • percentage (%) spend on administration – this is calculated for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023 as reported: administration costs/total reported spend on the Household Support Fund 3 for the Authority less any Authority contributions

Table 2: Percentage (%) spend for the Household Support Fund 3 by Authority for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023 split by the eligible categories of spend

The second table shows the percentages of the award spent split by the relevant spend categories (for example, food, energy and water ) for the same period.

All MI as reported by Authorities in their declaration of spend for the HSF.

Authority % Spend on food (non-Free School Meals support in the holidays) % Spend on Free School Meals support in the holidays % Spend on energy and water % Spend on essentials linked to energy and water % Spend on wider essentials % Spend on housing costs
Bath & North East Somerset UA 3% 39% 54% 0% 4% 1%  
Bedford UA 3% 46% 51% 0% 0% 0%  
Blackburn with Darwen UA 5% 56% 31% 0% 4% 3%  
Blackpool UA 21% 42% 19% 6% 12% 0%  
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole UA 36% 48% 13% 2% 2% 0%  
Bracknell Forest UA 62% 29% 6% 2% 1% 0%  
Brighton & Hove UA 32% 38% 18% 10% 3% 0%  
Bristol UA 25% 53% 9% 11% 1% 0%  
Buckinghamshire UA 12% 56% 9% 13% 8% 3%  
Cambridgeshire 35% 38% 26% 0% 1% 0%  
Central Bedfordshire UA 57% 36% 3% 0% 4% 0%  
Cheshire East UA 9% 40% 48% 0% 0% 3%  
Cheshire West and Chester UA 7% 39% 44% 5% 4% 0%  
City of Nottingham UA 12% 51% 36% 0% 1% 0%  
Cornwall UA 16% 27% 47% 4% 3% 3%  
Cumbria 7% 30% 24% 0% 40% 0%  
Darlington UA 13% 40% 34% 12% 0% 0%  
Derby City UA 18% 50% 31% 0% 0% 0%  
Derbyshire 36% 0% 46% 1% 7% 11%  
Devon 19% 42% 22% 6% 12% 1%  
Dorset UA 43% 52% 3% 0% 1% 0%  
Durham UA 8% 68% 11% 1% 12% 0%  
East Riding of Yorkshire UA 9% 39% 40% 9% 3% 0%  
East Sussex 16% 38% 37% 3% 4% 2%  
Essex 20% 51% 18% 11% 0% 0%  
Gloucestershire 31% 37% 22% 6% 4% 1%  
Halton UA 9% 45% 7% 34% 6% 0%  
Hampshire 61% 7% 17% 1% 9% 5%  
Hartlepool UA 2% 49% 18% 23% 6% 2%  
Herefordshire UA 11% 53% 17% 8% 10% 1%  
Hertfordshire 34% 38% 11% 2% 23% 1%  
Isle of Wight UA 82% 0% 4% 4% 8% 1%  
Isles of Scilly 34% 0% 66% 0% 0% 0%  
Kent 8% 32% 55% 1% 1% 2%  
Kingston upon Hull UA 21% 43% 6% 33% 0% 0%  
Lancashire 21% 39% 20% 5% 14% 2%  
Leicester City UA 29% 9% 47% 1% 0% 14%  
Leicestershire 29% 55% 23% 2% 1% 0%  
Lincolnshire 12% 59% 22% 1% 6% 0%  
Luton UA 23% 59% 9% 0% 9% 0%  
Middlesbrough UA 44% 0% 25% 0% 31% 0%  
Milton Keynes UA 10% 63% 5% 14% 8% 1%  
Norfolk 17% 58% 16% 7% 5% 1%  
North East Lincolnshire UA 3% 32% 54% 8% 3% 0%  
North Lincolnshire UA 17% 25% 47% 12% 0% 0%  
North Somerset UA 67% 24% 5% 3% 0% 0%  
North Yorkshire 88% 0% 12% 0% 0% 0%  
North Northamptonshire 9% 40% 18% 3% 12% 19%  
Northumberland UA 13% 42% 38% 4% 3% 0%  
Nottinghamshire 32% 0% 62% 1% 0% 4%  
Oxfordshire 15% 39% 4% 0% 39% 3%  
Peterborough UA 34% 55% 9% 1% 1% 0%  
Plymouth UA 17% 46% 17% 14% 6% 1%  
Portsmouth UA 73% 0% 11% 6% 5% 4%  
Reading UA 27% 27% 54% 0% 0% 0%  
Redcar & Cleveland UA 20% 0% 60% 10% 10% 0%  
Rutland UA 30% 45% 30% 0% 0% 0%  
Shropshire UA 4% 21% 18% 3% 54% 0%  
Slough UA 22% 58% 5% 0% 5% 9%  
somerset 27% 35% 17% 0% 21% 0%  
South Gloucestershire UA 31% 31% 32% 3% 3% 0%  
Southampton UA 42% 42% 10% 7% 0% 4%  
Southend-on-Sea UA 26% 38% 19% 12% 4% 2%  
Staffordshire 18% 43% 29% 10% 0% 0%  
Stockton-on-Tees UA 10% 0% 88% 2% 0% 0%  
Stoke-on-Trent UA 24% 48% 24% 0% 3% 0%  
Suffolk 14% 39% 19% 13% 4% 11%  
Surrey 26% 46% 17% 6% 4% 1%  
Swindon UA 13% 37% 43% 0% 2% 5%  
The Medway Towns UA 25% 45% 10% 1% 10% 9%  
Thurrock UA 31% 37% 22% 10% 0% 0%  
Torbay UA 43% 17% 28% 7% 5% 0%  
Warrington UA 19% 20% 61% 0% 0% 0%  
Warwickshire 40% 0% 67% 3% 0% 0%  
West Berkshire UA 5% 25% 62% 8% 0% 0%  
West Sussex 10% 36% 37% 15% 2% 0%  
Wiltshire UA 17% 48% 4% 29% 1% 1%  
Windsor & Maidenhead UA 4% 72% 10% 3% 4% 7%  
Wokingham UA 8% 52% 18% 16% 5% 1%  
Worcestershire 19% 39% 31% 6% 4% 1%  
York UA 49% 0% 49% 1% 0% 1%  
Bolton 26% 42% 21% 1% 7% 4%  
Bury 13% 37% 42% 0% 8% 0%  
Manchester 0% 61% 0% 50% 0% 0%  
Oldham 6% 80% 5% 1% 8% 1%  
Rochdale 16% 53% 21% 0% 10% 0%  
Salford 37% 35% 25% 0% 24% 1%  
Stockport 5% 1% 60% 1% 32% 1%  
Tameside 6% 72% 11% 9% 2% 0%  
Trafford 11% 72% 15% 0% 1% 0%  
Wigan 2% 49% 49% 1% 0% 0%  
Knowsley 31% 43% 12% 10% 4% 0%  
Liverpool 24% 46% 30% 0% 0% 0%  
St Helens 1% 44% 50% 5% 0% 0%  
Sefton 3% 40% 48% 5% 4% 0%  
Wirral 40% 4% 34% 1% 19% 2%  
Barnsley 13% 18% 15% 24% 31% 0%  
Doncaster 34% 0% 64% 0% 3% 0%  
Rotherham 6% 37% 55% 2% 0% 0%  
Sheffield 21% 39% 32% 3% 6% 0%  
Gateshead 46% 36% 15% 0% 0% 2%  
Newcastle upon Tyne 2% 46% 46% 2% 0% 3%  
North Tyneside 16% 47% 18% 0% 17% 1%  
South Tyneside 6% 37% 10% 0% 44% 2%  
Sunderland 20% 28% 52% 0% 0% 0%  
Coventry 14% 41% 29% 15% 1% 0%  
Dudley 24% 31% 21% 8% 10% 6%  
Sandwell 4% 64% 4% 5% 17% 6%  
Solihull 19% 46% 19% 16% 0% 0%  
Walsall 41% 0% 38% 13% 1% 8%  
Wolverhampton 40% 0% 12% 8% 38% 2%  
Bradford 26% 0% 65% 6% 3% 0%  
Calderdale 50% 0% 50% 0% 1% 0%  
Kirklees 42% 0% 51% 0% 6% 0%  
Leeds 35% 1% 39% 0% 18% 7%  
Wakefield 90% 0% 7% 3% 0% 0%  
City of London 6% 0% 50% 1% 24% 19%  
Camden 4% 84% 9% 2% 0% 0%  
Greenwich 13% 70% 13% 0% 4% 0%  
Hackney 29% 47% 24% 0% 0% 0%  
Hammersmith & Fulham 7% 42% 28% 1% 13% 9%  
Islington 27% 51% 15% 0% 7% 0%  
Kensington & Chelsea 7% 55% 38% 0% 0% 0%  
Lambeth 4% 70% 23% 3% 0% 0%  
Lewisham 71% 25% 2% 2% 0% 0%  
Southwark 0% 42% 58% 0% 2% 0%  
Tower Hamlets 5% 0% 95% 0% 0% 0%  
Wandsworth 19% 42% 38% 0% 1% 1%  
Westminster 22% 46% 29% 1% 3% 0%  
Barking & Dagenham 12% 69% 8% 4% 3% 4%  
Barnet 12% 58% 11% 9% 9% 0%  
Bexley 11% 36% 7% 2% 6% 38%  
Brent 6% 36% 50% 13% 2% 0%  
Bromley 19% 48% 33% 0% 0% 0%  
Croydon 11% 54% 13% 6% 10% 6%  
Ealing 31% 53% 6% 3% 7% 1%  
Enfield 24% 36% 12% 6% 23% 0%  
Haringey 11% 46% 41% 0% 2% 0%  
Harrow 31% 56% 2% 1% 0% 11%  
Havering 26% 27% 45% 0% 1% 0%  
Hillingdon 3% 48% 45% 4% 1% 0%  
Hounslow 15% 59% 23% 6% 7% 0%  
Kingston upon Thames 38% 32% 19% 3% 8% 1%  
Merton 0% 54% 42% 4% 0% 0%  
Newham 21% 44% 15% 17% 1% 2%  
Redbridge 26% 36% 16% 3% 12% 7%  
Richmond upon Thames 6% 51% 33% 1% 8% 0%  
Sutton 32% 34% 35% 0% 0% 0%  
Waltham Forest 30% 29% 29% 2% 10% 0%  
West Northamptonshire 1% 39% 4% 0% 52% 3%  
Totals 22% 37% 28% 5% 7% 2%  

Notes to Table 2:

  • all spend statistics derived from Individual Authority’s Statement of spend as of 10 August 2023 and as described in the scheme’s detailed guidance
  • totals may not sum to 100% as Authority spend has been capped to remove any contributions made by Authorities using their own funds
  • percentage (%) spend split by the five categories – this is calculated for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023 as reported: for example, spend on food/total reported spend on the Household Support Fund 3 for the Authority less the total of administrative costs and any Authority contributions

Table 3: Percentage (%) spend for the Household Support Fund 3 by Authority for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023 split by the eligible types of support

The third table shows the percentages of the award spent split by types of support (for example, vouchers, cash awards, tangible items) for the same period.

All MI as reported by Authorities in their declaration of spend for the HSF.

Authority % Spend on vouchers % Spend on cash awards % Spend on Third Party Organisations % Spend on tangible items
Bath & North East Somerset UA 42% 41% 13% 4%  
Bedford UA 46% 51% 3% 0%  
Blackburn with Darwen UA 0% 77% 21% 3%  
Blackpool UA 42% 0% 38% 4%  
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole UA 33% 3% 54% 9%  
Bracknell Forest UA 85% 6% 7% 3%  
Brighton & Hove UA 39% 0% 59% 3%  
Bristol UA 62% 11% 22% 5%  
Buckinghamshire UA 63% 0% 9% 17%  
Cambridgeshire 54% 44% 2% 0%  
Central Bedfordshire UA 88% 2% 0% 9%  
Cheshire East UA 100% 0% 0% 0%  
Cheshire West and Chester UA 40% 33% 28% 0%  
City of Nottingham UA 93% 0% 6% 0%  
Cornwall UA 4% 82% 1% 12%  
Cumbria 83% 13% 4% 0%  
Darlington UA 87% 2% 6% 6%  
Derby City UA 89% 0% 11% 0%  
Derbyshire 22% 67% 3% 1%  
Devon 57% 37% 5% 3%  
Dorset UA 92% 4% 0% 5%  
Durham UA 73% 0% 20% 7%  
East Riding of Yorkshire UA 64% 20% 7% 10%  
East Sussex 46% 28% 26% 0%  
Essex 81% 0% 4% 15%  
Gloucestershire 85% 2% 11% 3%  
Halton UA 58% 30% 0% 12%  
Hampshire 60% 3% 31% 6%  
Hartlepool UA 48% 23% 21% 6%  
Herefordshire UA 55% 2% 41% 1%  
Hertfordshire 76% 10% 11% 6%  
Isle of Wight UA 58% 0% 41% 0%  
Isles of Scilly 0% 0% 100% 0%  
Kent 77% 13% 7% 2%  
Kingston upon Hull UA 92% 5% 2% 3%  
Lancashire 66% 9% 17% 7%  
Leicester City UA 32% 38% 16% 1%  
Leicestershire 103% 0% 7% 0%  
Lincolnshire 75% 18% 6% 0%  
Luton UA 91% 0% 4% 0%  
Middlesbrough UA 53% 19% 4% 6%  
Milton Keynes UA 72% 2% 6% 14%  
Norfolk 58% 30% 5% 11%  
North East Lincolnshire UA 40% 54% 3% 3%  
North Lincolnshire UA 64% 0% 36% 0%  
North Somerset UA 66% 2% 29% 3%  
North Yorkshire 90% 4% 6% 0%  
North Northamptonshire 42% 23% 35% 0%  
Northumberland UA 61% 27% 11% 0%  
Nottinghamshire 15% 79% 0% 1%  
Oxfordshire 54% 42% 4% 0%  
Peterborough UA 80% 7% 14% 0%  
Plymouth UA 47% 7% 45% 2%  
Portsmouth UA 58% 11% 10% 22%  
Reading UA 75% 31% 2% 0%  
Redcar & Cleveland UA 0% 100% 0% 0%  
Rutland UA 93% 12% 0% 0%  
Shropshire UA 25% 61% 12% 2%  
Slough UA 91% 0% 0% 0%  
somerset 81% 0% 12% 8%  
South Gloucestershire UA 39% 45% 13% 2%  
Southampton UA 90% 4% 3% 7%  
Southend-on-Sea UA 83% 0% 15% 0%  
Staffordshire 61% 0% 29% 10%  
Stockton-on-Tees UA 79% 16% 5% 0%  
Stoke-on-Trent UA 53% 0% 47% 0%  
Suffolk 39% 37% 25% 0%  
Surrey 55% 22% 18% 2%  
Swindon UA 84% 4% 9% 4%  
Telford and the Wrekin UA 98% 2% 0% 0%  
The Medway Towns UA 80% 9% 11% 0%  
Thurrock UA 98% 0% 0% 2%  
Torbay UA 19% 56% 20% 5%  
Warrington UA 3% 97% 0% 0%  
Warwickshire 103% 0% 7% 0%  
West Berkshire UA 25% 0% 0% 8%  
West Sussex 51% 0% 46% 2%  
Wiltshire UA 45% 45% 5% 3%  
Windsor & Maidenhead UA 72% 25% 3% 0%  
Wokingham UA 80% 0% 6% 13%  
Worcestershire 57% 22% 8% 10%  
York UA 5% 94% 0% 1%  
Bolton 57% 0% 16% 21%  
Bury 97% 0% 0% 0%  
Manchester 12% 94% 6% 0%  
Oldham 83% 3% 6% 7%  
Rochdale 69% 18% 13% 0%  
Salford 93% 1% 4% 24%  
Stockport 44% 3% 50% 0%  
Tameside 72% 28% 0% 0%  
Trafford 31% 67% 0% 2%  
Wigan 73% 26% 0% 1%  
Knowsley 43% 7% 44% 0%  
Liverpool 73% 11% 6% 0%  
St Helens 47% 47% 0% 6%  
Sefton 40% 48% 9% 3%  
Wirral 15% 20% 58% 7%  
Barnsley 51% 11% 16% 22%  
Doncaster 22% 76% 3% 0%  
Rotherham 37% 55% 6% 0%  
Sheffield 40% 55% 0% 5%  
Gateshead 88% 5% 0% 7%  
Newcastle upon Tyne 59% 36% 0% 2%  
North Tyneside 89% 11% 0% 0%  
South Tyneside 37% 60% 0% 0%  
Sunderland 62% 19% 19% 0%  
Birmingham 35% 57% 7% 0%  
Coventry 80% 0% 14% 6%  
Dudley 69% 16% 11% 2%  
Sandwell 81% 0% 16% 3%  
Solihull 62% 2% 30% 6%  
Walsall 7% 72% 0% 14%  
Wolverhampton 10% 13% 63% 12%  
Bradford 50% 17% 21% 12%  
Calderdale 0% 90% 9% 0%  
Kirklees 32% 44% 22% 0%  
Leeds 4% 69% 20% 1%  
Wakefield 90% 0% 2% 2%  
City of London 3% 0% 3% 6%  
Camden 84% 16% 0% 0%  
Greenwich 0% 77% 19% 4%  
Hackney 61% 11% 28% 0%  
Hammersmith & Fulham 42% 37% 7% 0%  
Islington 47% 53% 0% 0%  
Kensington & Chelsea 62% 38% 0% 0%  
Lambeth 73% 21% 3% 1%  
Lewisham 46% 0% 52% 2%  
Southwark 101% 0% 0% 0%  
Tower Hamlets 1% 95% 0% 3%  
Wandsworth 65% 35% 0% 0%  
Westminster 96% 0% 4% 0%  
Barking & Dagenham 72% 21% 5% 1%  
Barnet 79% 17% 0% 4%  
Bexley 48% 48% 0% 2%  
Brent 72% 33% 2% 0%  
Bromley 100% 0% 0% 0%  
Croydon 13% 13% 54% 4%  
Ealing 77% 20% 3% 0%  
Enfield 60% 15% 11% 4%  
Haringey 81% 12% 7% 0%  
Harrow 15% 58% 16% 0%  
Havering 0% 83% 0% 0%  
Hillingdon 76% 21% 0% 3%  
Hounslow 71% 0% 15% 0%  
Kingston upon Thames 84% 0% 15% 0%  
Merton 88% 6% 7% 0%  
Newham 66% 18% 7% 0%  
Redbridge 63% 16% 8% 0%  
Richmond upon Thames 54% 46% 0% 0%  
Sutton 34% 64% 2% 0%  
Waltham Forest 66% 8% 12% 14%  
West Northamptonshire 39% 9% 50% 2%  
Totals 57% 24% 13% 3%  

Notes to Table 3:

  • all spend statistics derived from Individual Authority’s Statement of spend as of 10 August 2023 and as described in the scheme’s detailed guidance
  • totals may not sum to 100% as Authority spend has been capped to remove any contributions made by Authorities using their own funds.
  • percentage (%) spend split by the four types of support – this is calculated for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023 as reported: for example, spend on vouchers/total reported spend on the Household Support Fund 3 for the Authority less the total of administrative costs and any Authority contributions

Table 4: Percentage (%) spend for the Household Support Fund 3 by Authority for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023 split by access route

The fourth table shows the percentages of the award spent split by access routes (namely, application-based support and proactive support) for the same period.

All MI as reported by Authorities in their declaration of spend for the HSF.

Authority % Spend on application-based support % Spend on proactive support
Bath & North East Somerset UA 48% 39%  
Bedford UA 9% 91%  
Blackburn with Darwen UA 10% 90%  
Blackpool UA 19% 81%  
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole UA 44% 2%  
Bracknell Forest UA 9% 85%  
Brighton & Hove UA 40% 0%  
Bristol UA 15% 81%  
Buckinghamshire UA 32% 68%  
Cambridgeshire 62% 38%  
Central Bedfordshire UA 16% 83%  
Cheshire East UA 17% 83%  
Cheshire West and Chester UA 25% 47%  
City of Nottingham UA 28% 65%  
Cornwall UA 59% 35%  
Cumbria 53% 47%  
Darlington UA 24% 70%  
Derby City UA 37% 51%  
Derbyshire 35% 64%  
Devon 68% 30%  
Dorset UA 88% 12%  
Durham UA 23% 77%  
East Riding of Yorkshire UA 27% 67%  
East Sussex 62% 38%  
Essex 36% 53%  
Gloucestershire 87% 13%  
Halton UA 20% 78%  
Hampshire 61% 25%  
Hartlepool UA 28% 71%  
Herefordshire UA 0% 58%  
Isle of Wight UA 29% 69%  
Isles of Scilly 100% 0%  
Kent 20% 79%  
Kingston upon Hull UA 56% 44%  
Lancashire 67% 24%  
Leicester City UA 60% 41%  
Leicestershire 51% 59%  
Lincolnshire 11% 85%  
Luton UA 32% 64%  
Middlesbrough UA 23% 75%  
Milton Keynes UA 30% 63%  
Norfolk 41% 58%  
North East Lincolnshire UA 18% 82%  
North Lincolnshire UA 36% 64%  
North Somerset UA 12% 83%  
North Yorkshire 17% 76%  
North Northamptonshire 23% 42%  
Northumberland UA 40% 59%  
Nottinghamshire 8% 87%  
Oxfordshire 15% 84%  
Peterborough UA 45% 55%  
Plymouth UA 18% 10%  
Portsmouth UA 8% 92%  
Reading UA 2% 106%  
Redcar & Cleveland UA 100% 0%  
Rutland UA 2% 102%  
Shropshire UA 28% 73%  
Slough UA 32% 58%  
Somerset 46% 54%  
South Gloucestershire UA 50% 48%  
Southampton UA 62% 42%  
Southend-on-Sea UA 54% 46%  
Staffordshire 26% 74%  
Stockton-on-Tees UA 6% 89%  
Stoke-on-Trent UA 3% 49%  
Suffolk 56% 39%  
Surrey 31% 62%  
Swindon UA 12% 77%  
Telford and the Wrekin UA 16% 84%  
The Medway Towns UA 34% 55%  
Thurrock UA 61% 39%  
Torbay UA 61% 17%  
Warrington UA 2% 98%  
Warwickshire 14% 89%  
West Berkshire UA 75% 25%  
West Sussex 43% 56%  
Wiltshire UA 57% 35%  
Windsor & Maidenhead UA 72% 25%  
Wokingham UA 42% 52%  
Worcestershire 33% 64%  
York UA 99% 2%  
Bolton 32% 68%  
Bury 24% 74%  
Manchester 17% 95%  
Oldham 9% 91%  
Rochdale 27% 73%  
Salford 117% 0%  
Stockport 3% 81%  
Tameside 100% 0%  
Trafford 98% 2%  
Wigan 12% 85%  
Knowsley 49% 51%  
Liverpool 36% 64%  
St Helens 12% 88%  
Sefton 47% 53%  
Wirral 61% 39%  
Barnsley 32% 68%  
Doncaster 24% 74%  
Rotherham 55% 39%  
Sheffield 61% 39%  
Gateshead 39% 61%  
Newcastle upon Tyne 21% 79%  
North Tyneside 27% 73%  
South Tyneside 24% 74%  
Sunderland 34% 66%  
Birmingham 30% 70%  
Coventry 50% 41%  
Dudley 49% 50%  
Sandwell 11% 85%  
Solihull 41% 59%  
Walsall 28% 72%  
Wolverhampton 100% 0%  
Bradford 26% 74%  
Calderdale 3% 88%  
Kirklees 70% 30%  
Leeds 12% 68%  
Wakefield 14% 85%  
City of London 3% 37%  
Camden 16% 84%  
Greenwich 6% 74%  
Hackney 12% 88%  
Hammersmith & Fulham 27% 62%  
Islington 5% 95%  
Kensington & Chelsea 9% 91%  
Lambeth 4% 94%  
Lewisham 5% 51%  
Southwark 13% 88%  
Tower Hamlets 10% 87%  
Wandsworth 20% 80%  
Westminster 13% 80%  
Barking & Dagenham 21% 7%  
Barnet 30% 70%  
Bexley 35% 65%  
Brent 33% 72%  
Bromley 33% 67%  
Croydon 18% 27%  
Ealing 20% 80%  
Enfield 9% 91%  
Haringey 11% 82%  
Harrow 6% 68%  
Havering 56% 44%  
Hillingdon 6% 94%  
Hounslow 36% 0%  
Kingston upon Thames 52% 32%  
Merton 7% 93%  
Newham 13% 87%  
Redbridge 41% 15%  
Richmond upon Thames 26% 74%  
Sutton 64% 34%  
Waltham Forest 15% 80%  
West Northamptonshire 9% 91%  
Totals 33% 60%  

Notes to Table 4:

  • all spend statistics derived from Individual Authority’s Statement of spend as of 10 August 2023 and as described in the scheme’s detailed guidance.
  • totals may not sum to 100% as Authority spend has been capped to remove any contributions made by Authorities using their own funds

  • percentage (%) spend split by the two access routes – this is calculated for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023 as reported: for example, spend on proactive support/total reported spend on the Household Support Fund 3 for the Authority less the total of administrative costs and any Authority contributions