Over £23 billion of cuts in benefits were implemented in the last 5 years. A DWP study has shown the majority of councils are not spending their discretionary housing payment budget (leaving almost £7 million DHP funding unspent).
However total spending on DHPs in GB was around 121% of the total allocation as other councils have chosen to top up their funds to above 100% of government allocation(they can do this by up to 2.5 times their allocation).
See the map for information on which how much each council spent.
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