Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to answer Question 120618, tabled on 8 February 2022, on Local Housing Allowance, requesting that a copy of the Equality Impact Assessment for the freeze on Local Housing Allowance rates be placed in the House of Commons Library.
A copy of Equalities Analyses 2021-22 and 2022-23 will be placed in the Library.
In April 2020 we increased LHA rates to the 30th percentile of local rents, costing nearly £1 billion providing 1.5 million claimants with £600 more housing support on average over 2020-21 than they would otherwise have received.
LHA rates have been maintained at their increased levels in 2021-22 and 2022-23, so that everyone who benefitted from the increase will continue to do so.