Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
(asked on 26th August 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the operation of the under-occupancy penalty so that it applies only when suitable alternative accommodation is readily available.
This question was answered on 1st September 2014
The removal of the spare room subsidy remains government policy. There are no plans to amend this.