Mike Crockart: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and
Pensions whether his Department plans to allow underspends in the (a) 2013-14
and (b) 2014-15 discretionary housing payment budget to be carried over.
Steve Webb: Discretionary housing payment funding is
intended to be used to support housing benefit claimants during the financial
year for which it has been allocated. We do not intend to allow unspent funding
to be carried over from this financial year into the budget for 2014-15. We
allowed carrying over of the DHP underspend from 2011-12 to 2012-13. This was
because the transitional arrangements for the reforms to the local housing
allowance that were introduced during 2011-12 meant that they only took full
effect during 2012-13.
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