Joan Walley: To
ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has
made of the number of people subject to the under-occupancy penalty who have
moved into a smaller home since the introduction of that penalty.
Esther McVey: The last published figures for May 2014
showed that, as a result of various actions, the number of people affected by
the removal of the spare room subsidy had fallen by 65,000 over the last year. Analysis of off-flows
indicated that up to December 2013, around 22,000 people had downsized or
moved. New figures are not yet available and will be published in due course.
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