Cost of Living: Buckingham and Bletchley
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency received cost of living support in winter 2025-26.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The Department provides funding to local authorities in England through the Household Support Fund, to provide crisis support to vulnerable households in the most need with the cost of essentials.
Management Information on how local authorities have used this funding, including the number of awards made by each authority, is published on GOV.UK at:
Household Support Fund management information - GOV.UK.
This information is published at local authority level rather than by parliamentary constituency and is currently available up to March 2024. Management Information for subsequent iterations of the Household Support Fund, including the scheme running from April 2025 to March 2026, will be published in due course.
People in receipt of certain benefits also automatically receive Cold Weather Payments if the average temperature in their area is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees Celsius or below over 7 consecutive days. Statistics on the estimated number of payments so far in the winter of 2025/26 are published on GOV.UK:
Cold Weather Payment estimates: 2025 to 2026 - GOV.UK
This information is available by weather station rather than parliamentary constituency. You can find out which postcodes are linked to each weather station using the published Postcode Checker:
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