Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

(asked on 29th March 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 his Department arising from the application of the under-occupancy penalty in each of the last four financial years.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 18th April 2017

Estimated savings for Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy were published at Budget 2013 as follows:

2013/14 - £465 million

2014/15 - £465 million

2015/16 - £465 million

2016/17 - £470 million

2017/18 - £470 million

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