Charlie Elphicke: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and
Pensions what estimate he has made of the full cost to the Exchequer of
reinstating the under-occupancy penalty in fiscal year 2015-16.
Danny Alexander: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the
Treasury.
Table 2.2 of Budget 2013 shows that the removal of the spare
room subsidy in housing benefit from working-age tenants in the social rented
sector is expected to save £465 million in 2015-16. It is not the Government's
policy to reinstate the spare room subsidy.
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