United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 164348
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
Introduced
8 March 2021
Last action
11 March 2021 · Answer
Status
Answered
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Subjects
Housing
Source updated
11 March 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the spare room subsidy policy to ensure that people who are unable to work as a result of illness are not obliged to pay that charge.
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8 March 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the spare room subsidy policy to ensure that people who are unable to work as a result of illness are not obliged to pay that charge.
Source: Commons
11 March 2021
Answer
The ‘Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy’ policy has helped to encourage mobility within the social rented sector, strengthen work-incentives and make better use of available social housing. There are no plans to amend the policy which already allows for th...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-03-08/164348
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1300283
- uk · wq-1300283 · source updated 11 March 2021