Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the House of Commons Library a copy of the equality impact assessment carried out on the decision to maintain Local Housing Allowance rates of Housing Benefit at existing levels for tenants in the private rented sector.

An Equality Analysis has been undertaken for the decision to maintain LHA rates at their current level and will be published in due course.