Frank Field – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what budget was allocated to the Flexible Support Fund in the most recent financial year for which data is available; and how much of that budget remained unspent.

Priti Patel

The budget allocated for Flexible Support Fund in 14/15 was £136m [excluding the support contract which was a further £20m]. Spend was £72m, leaving an underspend of £64m