Housing

Lord Best Excerpts

Thursday 21st October 2010 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Hanham]

My Lords, the answer is yes for future tenancies, and no for existing tenancies and arrangements.

[Lord Best]

My Lords, on housing benefit, am I right in thinking that, following yesterday’s announcement in the CSR, somebody in their 30s in a one-bedroom flat who loses their job will find that if they need housing benefit they will have to leave that flat, where they might have lived for some time, and find somewhere to share with other people? That is a fairly tall order in many parts of the country. Is that the position we find ourselves in with the raising of the level for housing benefit?