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Written Question
Housing Benefit
Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Asked by: Mike Thornton (Liberal Democrat - Eastleigh)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the availability of shared accommodation for people under 35 in receipt of housing benefit.

Answered by Steve Webb

No assessment has been made of the availability of shared accommodation for single people under 35. However the Department commissioned an independent evaluation of the changes to Local Housing Allowance, including the impacts on single people under 35. The final report was published last year and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-monitoring-the-impact-of-changes

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Mar 2014
amendment of the law

"On cutting taxes for ordinary working people, surely the hon. Lady must concede that putting the tax allowance up so that they are paying nothing on their first £10,000 or £10,500 is better than their paying 10p on that amount?..."
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