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Written Question
Local Housing Allowance
Tuesday 19th July 2022

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the full list of rents for England used to calculate the Local Housing Allowance rates for 2022-3.

Answered by Lucy Frazer

The Local Housing Allowance (LHA) list of rents are published here: www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-housing-allowance-list-of-rents.

As the LHA rate has been frozen, the most recent list of rents published is for 2020-21. Therefore, the data used to calculate the LHA for 2022-23 remains the same as that used for 2020-21.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Dec 2021
Covid-19: Government Support for Business

"I am acutely aware, having a constituency on the edge of the west end, of the impact that the pandemic has had not only on hospitality and tourism, but on the culture, arts and live performance sector. Last night, it was reported that 12 west end shows were unable to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Mar 2020
Economic Update

"Half of my constituents rent privately—that is the highest proportion in the country. A quarter of all Londoners rent privately, and 13 million people across the country rent privately, with a third having no savings whatsoever. Will the Chancellor assure me that when we have the statement from the Housing …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Mar 2019
Gambling-Related Harm

"Ronnie Cowan, you have less than a minute, but that is enough for a brief comment...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
Spring Statement

"Is it not true that poverty in this country increasingly wears a working face, that we now have the highest ever proportion of families in poverty who are in work, that a family of four with two people working full time on the national minimum wage will be £600 a …..."
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Written Question
Welfare Tax Credits
Friday 30th October 2015

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of households in receipt of tax credits in each of the last five tax years for which figures are available had not made a claim in the preceding tax year.

Answered by Damian Hinds

The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Welfare Tax Credits
Friday 30th October 2015

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of households in receipt of tax credits in each of the last five tax years for which data are available did not make a claim in the following tax year.

Answered by Damian Hinds

The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Welfare Tax Credits
Friday 30th October 2015

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average duration is of a tax credit claim.

Answered by Damian Hinds

The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 29 Oct 2015
Tax Credits

"My right hon. Friend is making a very powerful case. Does she agree that the important element of tax credits was that they were a means of getting lone parents in particular into work? Gingerbread, among others, has calculated that a 5% rise in employment among lone parents saves the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 29 Oct 2015
Tax Credits

"Does my hon. Friend agree that although we have heard a lot from the Conservatives about the rise in tax credits over the past decade, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has stated very clearly that child poverty would have stayed the same or risen rather than falling substantially without those …..."
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