Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an estimate of the potential effect on the savings arising from implementing the Universal Credit (Waiting Days) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 of removing housing costs from the scope of those regulations.

The information requested can be found at Paragraph 26 of the report by the Social Security Advisory Committee, attached here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/434281/universal-credit-waiting-days-report.pdf