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answering body |
Department for Work and Pensions |
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question text |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will carry out an impact
assessment of the proposal to remove housing benefit entitlement from people aged
18 to 21 years old including the collection of data (a) for local authority areas
and (b) nationally on the number of young people aged between 18 and 21 claiming housing
benefit (i) who have suffered abuse and domestic violence in the family home and escaped,
(ii) who have been thrown out of the family home because they are LGBTIQ, (iii) who
have an alcoholic or drug dependent parent, (iv) who are orphans, (v) who are care
leavers, (vi) who have never got on with a step-parent, (vii) whose parents are overseas,
(viii) whose parents have moved to a different local authority area, (ix) who are
living in a hostel, (x) who are living in a foyer, (xi) who are living in domestic
violence refuges, (xii) whose parents do not have room for them and (xiii) who have
parents in prison; and if he will make a statement.
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