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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"16. If he will review the calculation of the housing element of universal credit. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I congratulate the new ministerial team on their appointment. The challenge in a constituency such as mine in the south-east and inside the M25 is that, even when the Government are spending a substantial amount of money on housing support, the local housing allowance simply does not enable people to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Sep 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State and indeed the whole Government should take credit for the amount of support they have provided to people on low incomes in the past year during the pandemic. Will she take a further look at the housing element of universal credit? In my constituency, rising rental …..."
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Written Question
Local Housing Allowance
Monday 25th January 2021

Asked by: Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of local housing allowance; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Will Quince

In April 2020 Local Housing Allowance rates were set at the 30th percentile of local rents, costing nearly £1 billion and providing - on average - 1.5 million households with an increase of £600 per year.

I can also confirm that the increase to Local Housing Allowance rates will be maintained in cash terms in the next financial year, to continue supporting our claimants to manage housing costs.

Written Question
Rented Housing: Epsom and Ewell
Friday 6th November 2020

Asked by: Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to Answer 2 November to Question 107609, if she will make an assessment of the number of properties on the rental market in Epsom and Ewell which fall into the lower quartile financial limits for housing support.

Answered by Will Quince

We do not currently hold information to make such an assessment.

Written Question
Rented Housing: Epsom and Ewell
Monday 2nd November 2020

Asked by: Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of properties on the rental market in Epsom and Ewell which fall into the lower quartile financial limits for housing support.

Answered by Will Quince

There has been no such assessment.

In April we increased Local Housing Allowance rates for Housing Benefit and Universal Credit to the lowest 30 percent of local rents. This includes all rates in Outer South London and Outer South West London, the two Broad Rental Market Areas which fall within Epsom and Ewell. This significant investment of almost £1billion, ensures over 1 million households will see an increase, on average, of £600 this year.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 May 2020
Covid-19: DWP Update

"May I join in thanking all the staff at the DWP, and indeed the Secretary of State and her team, and in particular, the staff at Epsom jobcentre, for dealing with the current crisis as effectively as they have? Will she look again at the issue of LHA for the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 04 Sep 2012
Atos Healthcare

"On behalf of everybody in the room and in the House, I welcome the hon. Lady back to the House. We are delighted to see her in such good shape. We were sad to hear of the difficulties in the long period of recovery she has had to go through. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 04 Sep 2012
Atos Healthcare

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I know that this is an issue of great concern to many Members, as it was always going to be. I totally accept that this is a long and difficult process, and I have always said that, both in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 04 Sep 2012
Atos Healthcare

"If people can make a return to work, even if it is a different form of work from what they were able to do before their health condition arose, that is better for them than spending the rest of their life on benefits. That is the principle that we are …..."
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