Comprehensive Spending Review

Clive Efford Excerpts

Thursday 28th October 2010 Commons Chamber

[Danny Alexander]

No, I do not think it is fair.

[Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)]

I have one simple question: will the Minister confirm that the majority of people on housing benefit are in work?

[Danny Alexander]

Yes; many people on housing benefit are in work. The point of our reform is to say that the fairness should be between people on out-of-work housing benefit gaining the maximum amount, which we will cap at £400 a week, so that that amount is equivalent to what people in work could receive in housing benefit.