Chris Bryant:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to his oral answer
of 13 January 2014, Official Report, column 577, what the evidential basis was
for his estimate of between 3,000 and 5,000 people that may have been affected
by the under-occupancy penalty since April 2013.
Esther McVey:
On the information currently available, we estimate the numbers affected are
likely to be fewer than 5,000 nationally. This is based on the assumption that
if a claimant's current claim started before 1 January 1996 they would have
been entitled to the transitional protection and therefore affected.
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