Local Housing Allowance

(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the freeze on local housing allowance on levels of homelessness.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 30th October 2017

We have made no assessment of the impact of the policy to freeze Local Housing Allowance rates upon levels of homelessness.

There is currently no clear evidence to suggest that the policy is contributing to increased homelessness. Further, the latest statistics show that the number of homelessness acceptances in England has decreased slightly over the past year and the figures are very similar to the homelessness acceptances when the freeze commenced.

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