Local Housing Allowance

(asked on 13th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 26 May 2022 to Question 6683 on Local Housing Allowance, whether her Department is collecting data on the prevalence and size of shortfalls experienced by Local Housing Allowance claimants by (a) Government Office Region, (b) Broad Rental Market Area and (c) the size of property.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 16th June 2022

The Department has data on Local Housing Allowance by region and Broad Rental Market Area. There is also some data on size of property, in that for most households on Local Housing Allowance data is collected on the number of bedrooms.

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