Social Security Benefits

(asked on 4th November 2014) - 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 3 November 2014, Official Report, column 522, what the evidential basis is for his statement that there has been very little movement of more than about five miles from people's existing homes as a result of the benefit cap.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 10th November 2014

Latest official statistics, released 6th November, show that only 1% of households who have previously been capped and which are no longer subject to the cap have moved to a different Local Authority.

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