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420363

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date	09/10/2015
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	Universal Credit: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the removal of a tenant's right to choose whether to have a payment of the housing element of the universal credit paid directly to their landlord on (a) private sector and (b) social sector landlords.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	11208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The independent evaluation of the Universal Credit (UC) Direct Payment Demonstration Projects report showed that asking claimants to take responsibility for paying their rent did not lead to big increases in rent arrears. We are drawing on the findings from these Projects as part of our approach to continually improving the service. The reports can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-payment-demonstration-projects-final-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-payment-demonstration-projects-final-reports</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 11095 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:57:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

420374

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Universal Credit: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the representations made by Shelter and the Money Advice Trust on the effect on tenant choice of the removal of a tenant's ability to have payment of the housing element of the universal credit paid directly to their landlord.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	11095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The independent evaluation of the Universal Credit (UC) Direct Payment Demonstration Projects report showed that asking claimants to take responsibility for paying their rent did not lead to big increases in rent arrears. We are drawing on the findings from these Projects as part of our approach to continually improving the service. The reports can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-payment-demonstration-projects-final-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-payment-demonstration-projects-final-reports</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 11208 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:57:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes