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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2016
Housing: Under-occupancy

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent meetings have taken place between ministers and citizens affected by the under-occupancy charge...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2016
Housing: Under-occupancy

"Having recently become involved with a charity in the north-east of England which helps and speaks up for people with learning disabilities, I have been struck by the number of cases in which the bedroom tax has greatly increased the problems that some of these people are facing. Will the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Jan 2016
Housing: Underoccupancy Charge

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the effect of the underoccupancy charge on the health and well-being of those subject to it...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Jan 2016
Housing: Underoccupancy Charge

"My Lords, the Government—and indeed the Minister in previous replies—have failed absolutely to concede that there has been an adverse effect on the health and well-being of those who are subjected to the bedroom tax. The Minister talks about evidence, but has he read the reports commissioned by his own …..."
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Written Question
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
Thursday 12th November 2015

Asked by: Baroness Quin (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence they have to support the statement in the 2012 impact assessment <i>Housing Benefit: Under-occupation of social housing</i> that the introduction of the under-occupancy charge would have no impact on health and well-being.

Answered by Lord Freud

Following on from the 2012 impact assessment an independent two year evaluation was commissioned that looked at the effects of this policy.


The report is due to be published by the end of the year.


Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2015
Housing: Underoccupancy Charge

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to undertake a regional study of the effects of the under-occupancy charge...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2015
Housing: Underoccupancy Charge

"My Lords, I believe that recent studies show a wide variation between and, in some cases, within regions. In the north-east, in Newcastle for example, there has been no overcrowding problem—a problem that the Government said they wanted to address—but there is a huge shortage of one-bedroom flats, so that …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 24 Jun 2014
Housing: Underoccupancy Charge

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect to publish their interim review on the under-occupancy charge...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 24 Jun 2014
Housing: Underoccupancy Charge

"I welcome that reply although I note that last October the Minister said that he expected the report to come out in the spring, which has now come and gone. Can he assure me that in the meanwhile, he and his colleagues will be meeting some of the many people …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Mar 2014
Housing: Inherited Social Housing Tenancies

"My Lords, will the Minister tell us when the review on the bedroom tax will be published? In the mean time, will he undertake to meet many of the people who have been personally affected by this tax, and whose lives have been turned upside down as a result?..."
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