Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
(asked on 13th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the average amount deducted from housing benefit claimants in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Great Britain due to the removal of the spare room subsidy in the latest period for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 9th October 2017
The available information for Housing Benefit claims with removal of the spare room subsidy reduction, including average amount deducted, is published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/housing-benefit-caseload-statistics