Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the potential financial costs to the public purse of changes in the number of households being made homeless as a result of a lower benefit cap.

The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20 July. A link to the impact assessment is included.

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf