Asked by: Baroness Quin (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence they have to support the statement in the 2012 impact assessment <i>Housing Benefit: Under-occupation of social housing</i> that the introduction of the under-occupancy charge would have no impact on health and well-being.
Answered by Lord Freud
Following on from the 2012 impact assessment an independent two year evaluation was commissioned that looked at the effects of this policy.
The report is due to be published by the end of the year.