Under-occupancy Penalty Debate
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David Mowat
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(8 years, 10 months ago)
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Justin Tomlinson
Not at all, because these people have been given the money that shows that discretionary housing payment works.
David Mowat (Warrington South) (Con)
When the Labour party introduced the spare room subsidy for the private sector, there was no discretionary housing payment to go with it. Have we made an assessment of whether we could extend discretionary housing payment to the spare room subsidy introduced by Labour?
Justin Tomlinson
Why was no additional support provided to vulnerable people when Labour introduced it for the private sector? That was not fair.