Private Rented Housing: Housing Benefit
(asked on 7th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of housing benefit on the level of private-sector rents.
This question was answered on 10th September 2015
The Department has not made an assessment of the effect of housing benefit on the level of private sector rents.
The Local Housing Allowance rates for 2015/16 (effective from April 2015) were published by Rent Officers on 30 January 2015 together with the 30th percentiles of local rents.