Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Jim Cunningham (Labour), on Tuesday, 9 July 2019, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 19 members in total.

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LOCAL WELFARE ASSISTANCE SCHEMES

That this House recognises the benefit of Local Welfare Assistance Schemes for people in need; notes the help they have provided to people in urgent need following an emergency or unforeseen event; regrets the decision by the 2013 Government to devolve responsibility to local councils and to stop providing a separate cash grant for these schemes in 2015; further regrets that the number of people benefiting from these schemes has plummeted by 75 per cent since 2013; further notes that 1 in 7 local authority areas in England no longer have a local welfare assistance scheme in place at all; and calls on the Government to reintroduce a separate cash grant to local government to fund a local welfare assistance scheme in every local authority area.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2595 

Session

2017-19

Other sponsors

Ronnie Campbell

Rosie Cooper

Mark Hendrick

Marie Rimmer

Wera Hobhouse

Subjects

Finance Welfare assistance schemes

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk