Housing Benefit

(asked on 3rd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households who will have a reduced entitlement to housing benefit in (a) Tottenham constituency, (b) the borough of Haringey, (c) London, and (d) the UK as a result of the extension of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London.


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Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 10th November 2016

It is estimated that around 500 households in Tottenham constituency will be affected by the lower benefit cap in 2016/17. The information on the number of households affected by the lower benefit cap in London, the London Borough of Haringey and Great Britain is available in the latest impact assessment published 25th August 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap

The estimated number of children in households affected in Great Britain is available in the latest impact assessment above. It is estimated that around 1,200 children are in households affected by the lower cap in Tottenham constituency, 1,800 in the London Borough of Haringey and 41,200 in London.

Information regarding Northern Ireland is a matter for the Northern Ireland Office.

Notes:

  1. Estimates assume no behavioural responses - any behavioural responses to the lower cap, such as claimants moving into employment, would cause the number of households affected to reduce.
  2. Estimates of households and children affected have been rounded to the nearest 100.
  3. The methodology used to estimate the households and children affected by the cap is consistent with that described in the latest impact assessment above.
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