Written Question
Monday 16th June 2014
Asked by:
Guto Bebb (Independent - Aberconwy)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much each local authority in (a) Wales and (b) the UK returned to his Department in unused discretionary housing payment funding in 2013-14.
Answered by Steve Webb
The information requested is due to be published shortly as part of wider analysis on the use of Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) in 2013/14.
Written Question
Monday 16th June 2014
Asked by:
Guto Bebb (Independent - Aberconwy)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many local authorities in (a) Wales and (b) the UK returned unused discretionary housing payment to his Department in 2013-14.
Answered by Steve Webb
The information requested is due to be published shortly as part of wider analysis on the use of Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) in 2013/14.
Written Question
Thursday 12th June 2014
Asked by:
Guto Bebb (Independent - Aberconwy)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many local authorities in Wales applied for additional financial assistance to cover discretionary housing payments in 2013-14; and what assistance such local authorities received.
Answered by Steve Webb
The three local authorities in Wales that applied for additional Discretionary Housing Payments from the additional £20 million reserve fund provided by the Government are detailed on the table below:
Local Authority | Amount Awarded |
Caerphilly | £63,000 |
Cardiff | £150,000 |
Conwy | £25,000 |
This information was published on 24 March 2014 in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) subsidy circular S3/2014. Please find attached a link where the information can be found.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/295291/s3-2014.pdf
Written Question
Thursday 12th June 2014
Asked by:
Guto Bebb (Independent - Aberconwy)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many local authorities in Wales applied for additional financial assistance to cover discretionary housing payments in 2013-14; and what assistance such local authorities received.
Answered by Steve Webb
The three local authorities in Wales that applied for additional Discretionary Housing Payments from the additional £20 million reserve fund provided by the Government are detailed on the table below:
Local Authority | Amount Awarded |
Caerphilly | £63,000 |
Cardiff | £150,000 |
Conwy | £25,000 |
This information was published on 24 March 2014 in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) subsidy circular S3/2014. Please find attached a link where the information can be found.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/295291/s3-2014.pdf
Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 01 May 2014
Housing Benefit (Wales)
"Is it not also the case that we heard evidence as a Committee that the housing market is dynamic in nature? As some people move from social housing into the private sector housing market, others will move from the private sector housing market into social housing freed up by the …..."Guto Bebb - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 01 May 2014
Housing Benefit (Wales)
"I am interested in the hon. Lady’s comments about Torfaen, but she could mention the situation in Denbighshire and Conwy where a report from Eryl Rowlands, who is responsible for the matter in both counties, makes it clear that the anticipated problems associated with the so-called bedroom tax have not …..."Guto Bebb - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 01 May 2014
Housing Benefit (Wales)
"Those concerns were also highlighted in north Wales before the changes to the spare room subsidy were implemented, but the three largest social sector housing providers in Conwy and Denbighshire have seen their arrears either fall or remain static, so were the concerns exaggerated by those individuals and organisations?..."Guto Bebb - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 01 May 2014
Housing Benefit (Wales)
"I agree with my hon. Friend that the difference between the private and social sectors should be reduced. Nevertheless, my experience is that housing associations in the social sector seem to have been more willing to work together as a result of the policy than they were previously. Is that …..."Guto Bebb - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 01 May 2014
Housing Benefit (Wales)
"On that point, it is important to state that the provision of social housing in Wales fell dramatically throughout the early part of the noughties—2000 to 2007—under successive Labour Administrations in the Assembly. The problem is not recent; social housing provision in Wales has been an issue of concern over …..."Guto Bebb - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 01 May 2014
Housing Benefit (Wales)
"I do think that rent caps are a socialist trap. The fact that they are supported by the Committee’s Labour members, Liberal member and Plaid member is unfortunate because, in Wales, many people who have invested in buy-to-let properties have done so because of the previous Labour Government’s anti-pension policies. …..."Guto Bebb - View Speech
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