PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing (2 February 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effect of the under-occupancy penalty on his Department's expenditure in this Parliament; and under what categories of expenditure that effect has happened.

Asked by:
Mr Clive Betts (Labour)

The removal of the spare room subsidy is saving around £1 billion over the course of this Parliament from Housing Benefit expenditure in the social rented sector.

Answered by:
Mr Mark Harper (Conservative)
9 February 2015