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385160

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date	23/06/2015
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	Housing Benefit: Torfaen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse arising from the under-occupancy penalty in Torfaen constituency in financial year 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	3849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested for those subject to the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy in Torfaen, is not readily available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 13:40:06 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

385168

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Torfaen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of payment of (a) out-of-work and (b) in-work benefits to people in Torfaen constituency in financial year 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	3903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Information on benefit expenditure for 2014/15 at a Parliamentary Constituency level is not currently available. 2014/15 data is planned for publication in September. Data for 2000/01 to 2013/14 is available via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 29/06/2015 13:32:43 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

385169

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Torfaen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the Government's projected £12 billion reduction in welfare expenditure that will take place in Torfaen constituency.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	3904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to reduce welfare spending was set out in its election manifesto. Further details will be given in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 13:44:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

385170

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people liable to the under-occupancy penalty (a) found alternative accommodation and (b) paid the penalty.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	3906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested for those subject to the removal of the spare room subsidy for part a) is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for part (b) is not held.</p><p>However, an analysis of changes to the number of people subject to a reduction in their Housing Benefit award, including those who have downsized, from May to December 2013 was published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/removal-of-the-spare-room-subsidy-analysis-july-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/removal-of-the-spare-room-subsidy-analysis-july-2014</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 13:48:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds