Local Support Grant Ward Data

The Local Support Grant (LSG) was a fund provided by the Department for Work and Pensions and administered by local authorities in England.The purpose of the grant was to support those households which had been economically affected by the COVID pandemic and sought to provide immediate short term relief in the form of awards to these people.The criteria for allocation of funds was dictated by the DWP and awards could be given to support the provision of food, payments of energy and water bills and other essential items required by households.The scheme ran from the 1st April 2021 through to the 30th September 2021.This dataset supports the "Local Support Grant" dataset in providing a lower level of detail of the same information. It contains details of how the fund was distributed to each ward of the city and by the spending categories provided by the DWP.