Official Statistics

Use of Discretionary Housing Payments: financial year 2022 to 2023

Analysis of local authorities' use of Discretionary Housing Payment funds, based on local authority end-of-year returns.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 13 July 2023

Applies to England and Wales

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Use of Discretionary Housing Payments: analysis of end-of-year returns from local authorities, data for April 2022 to March 2023

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Background information and methodology: use of Discretionary Housing Payments statistics

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Data tables: Use of Discretionary Housing Payments: analysis of end-of-year returns from local authorities, data for April 2022 to March 2023

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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of Discretionary Housing Payments statistics.

This publication provides analysis of the use of Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs).

DHPs are monetary awards that can be made by Local Authorities to people experiencing financial difficulty with housing costs who qualify for Housing Benefit or the housing costs element of Universal Credit.

This statistical release presents analysis of information submitted to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by Local Authorities, covering the financial year ending March 2023.

Local Authorities provide details of their use of DHP funds to DWP for these statistics twice a year. These are published for the first 6 months of the financial year and for the whole of the financial year.

DHPs and Scotland

DHPs for Scotland were devolved from 1 April 2017, under the Scotland Act 2016 implementing the Smith Commission Agreement.

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Next releases

Use of Discretionary Housing Payments statistics are published twice a year. The dates for future releases are listed in the statistics release calendar.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the Discretionary Housing Payments statistics.

Published 13 July 2023