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627470

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the potential effect of the extension of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London on the level of spending by local authorities on (a) emergency, (b) temporary and (c) bed and breakfast accommodation for people at risk of homelessness.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>The evaluation of the current benefit cap shows very little, if any, impact on homelessness as a direct result of the cap. The small numbers of capped households who had been evicted were noted by Local Authorities as having other reasons for rent arrears and also failing to engage with relevant services; they were considered intentionally homeless. To help ensure Local Authorities are able to protect the most vulnerable housing benefit claimants and to support households adjusting to reforms, the government will provide £870 million funding for the Discretionary Housing Payments scheme over the next 5 years. Housing Benefit paid for specified accommodation such as refuges is ignored when calculating whether or not the cap applies.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 51684 51688 question first answered 10/11/2016 14:09:01 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

627475

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households living in emergency housing who will be affected by the extension of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>The evaluation of the current benefit cap shows very little, if any, impact on homelessness as a direct result of the cap. The small numbers of capped households who had been evicted were noted by Local Authorities as having other reasons for rent arrears and also failing to engage with relevant services; they were considered intentionally homeless. To help ensure Local Authorities are able to protect the most vulnerable housing benefit claimants and to support households adjusting to reforms, the government will provide £870 million funding for the Discretionary Housing Payments scheme over the next 5 years. Housing Benefit paid for specified accommodation such as refuges is ignored when calculating whether or not the cap applies.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 51684 51693 question first answered 10/11/2016 14:09:01 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy