Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in London are affected by the household benefit cap; and how many such people have been placed by their local authority in temporary accommodation.

The number of households that were subject to the benefit cap in February 2015, the latest available information, in London was 10,520. Data on the number of people placed by their local authority in temporary accommodation is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.