Labour’s bid to derail the government’s controversial housing benefit reforms has ended in failure. A Parliamentary committee has voted against a motion that sought to annul secondary legislation, introduced earlier this month, which will bring in the changes. The seven Labour members who voted in favour of the annulment were defeated by the nine Liberal Democrat and Tory members and one Democratic Unionist Party MP who voted to retain them. Committee member and Labour housing benefit spokesperson Karen Buck called on the committee to vote against the regulations, which include caps on local housing allowance payments and a reduction in the maximum number of bedrooms to which any claimant household is entitled from five to four. Read more on Inside Housing.
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