Thursday, 14 September 2017

Housing Benefit: Private Rented Housing – Parliamentary Written Answer

Mr David Lammy: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the total sum of housing benefit payable to households living in the private rented sector in 2017-18.

Caroline Dinenage: Expenditure on Housing Benefit for households living in the private rented sector in 2017/18 is forecast to be £8.8 billion. This includes the Housing Benefit that would have been paid to households who are instead receiving housing support through Universal Credit.

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