Housing Benefit: East Sussex
(asked on 29th August 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effects of the under-occupancy penalty on social housing tenants in (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) East Sussex; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 5th September 2014
The information requested is not available.
On a national scale, reversing the removal of spare room subsidy policy would cost the tax-payer approximately £500 million per annum.