Social Rented Housing – Parliamentary Written Answer

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he proposes that (a) council and (b) housing association-owned accommodation, used to provide temporary accommodation, will be subject to the social sector size criteria.

Steve Webb: People who are accepted as homeless under the Housing Act 1996 and placed in temporary accommodation by either (a) the local authority or (b) a housing association will not be subject to size criteria.