PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Local Housing Allowance (1 December 2015)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of freezing local housing allowance on working families in privately-rented accommodation.
Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)
Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)
Answer
As Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation levels are close to zero, the impact of freezing Local Housing Allowance rates will have no impact in 2016/17 when compared to the counterfactual of uprating by CPI. (In future years, 30 per cent of the savings from the ‘freeze’ will be used to create further Targeted Affordability Funding to help those areas where rent increases are causing a shortage of affordable accommodation.)
Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
7 December 2015
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