Welfare reform minister Lord Freud has been asked if he
knows or cares about how many social housing tenants have been evicted as a
consequence of the controversial bedroom tax. Questioned in the House of Lords,
the minister repeatedly avoided answering if he knew how many tenants have been
evicted because of the under-occupancy policy. Labour peer Lord McAvoy first
asked Freud if he knew or cared what the number was. The minister didn't answer
so the question was picked up by Baroness Taylor of Bolton, who asked:
"Will the minister answer the question posed by my noble friend about the
number of evictions? Does he know the number, and does he care?" Freud
finally conceded that he was not sure of "the exact number" of
evictions but that he thought that there weren't "very many at all, if
any". Read more on 24dash.
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