PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing Benefit (15 October 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the potential effects of the provisions of the Housing and Planning Bill on the total amount of spending on housing benefit 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)
22 October 2015