PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing Benefit (15 October 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) economic and (b) health effects of the provisions of the Housing and Planning Bill on people who receive housing benefit and who are subject to the benefit cap in each of the next five years.

Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

The Government will continue to assess the impacts of the Housing and Planning Bill as it progresses through Parliament. We will publish our assessments on Parliament's website at:

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/housingandplanning/documents.html.

These will be updated as further assessments are undertaken.

Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
23 October 2015