Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse as a result of the removal of the spare room subsidy in each year since its introduction.
This question was answered on 31st October 2017
The information requested is in the tables below.
Table A – Housing Benefit Spare Room Subsidy deductions, 2013/14 – 2016/17
Financial Year | Savings (£m) |
2013/14 | 385 |
2014/15 | 365 |
2015/16 | 355 |
2016/17 | 335 |
These figures do not take into account any additional savings due to behavioural change before/after the policy has been introduced, for example moving to a smaller property to avoid a deduction.