Monday, 16 February 2015

Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing – Parliamentary Written Answer

Clive Betts: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effect of the under-occupancy penalty on his Department's expenditure in this Parliament; and under what categories of expenditure that effect has happened.

Mark Harper: The removal of the spare room subsidy is saving around £1 billion over the course of this Parliament from Housing Benefit expenditure in the social rented sector.

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