Chancellor set to cut £10m of local cost of living support

Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, Crawley Labour is calling on the Chancellor to reverse plans to abolish the Household Support Fund.

The Fund is designed to help families hit by the cost of living crisis. Over the last year, local households struggling to make ends meet received support worth £9,740,724, but now ministers seem determined to axe the fund, further deepening the cost of living crisis for households in Crawley and across West Sussex.  

The budget comes with the UK economy in recession, shattering Rishi Sunak’s promise to deliver growth over the last year.

Labour’s Peter Lamb, said:

“People in Crawley and across West Sussex are already struggling with a Conservative cost of living crisis and Rishi Sunak’s Recession. It is astonishing that the Tories are planning to make things even worse by removing one of the last lines of support for families who need it.

“The Household Support Fund helps local families cover the basics – food and energy – to kick that away now isn’t just incompetence, it’s cruelty. Crawley Labour Women have been helping local charities to support Crawley people by holding collections on neighbourhood parades for over a year now. Every week they meet with and talk to people who are literally desperate for this help.

“That’s why, at this week’s budget the Chancellor must think again.

“But the truth is the Conservatives can’t solve Crawley’s problems – they are the problem. Labour has a plan to get Britain’s future back. We need a general election now so we can get on and deliver it.”