Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Equality Impact Assessment carried out by her Department in 2020 on the uprating of Local Housing Allowance rates to the thirtieth percentile of local market rents, whether she has commissioned an equality impact assessment of freezing Local Housing Allowance rates at 2020-21 levels for (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.
The Secretary of State has considered the equality impacts in line with her duties under the Equalities Act 2010.