Thursday, 16 January 2014

Discretionary Housing Payments – Parliamentary Oral Answer

Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal) (Con): What assessment he has made of recent trends in the award of discretionary housing payments. 

Iain Duncan Smith: Figures published in December show that in the first half of the financial year 2013-14 the average committed spend by local authorities was 40% of their allocated budget. Against those who had said that they were overspending, in fact it turns out that the vast majority are not.

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