Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 22744
Tabled: 28 August 2026
Question
Mrs Elsie Blundell
Labour — Heywood and Middleton North
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of discretionary local welfare funding to tackle child deprivation and shortages of household essentials in the Heywood and Middleton North consti