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997097

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date	29/10/2018
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the claim by the Centre for Social Justice in its report, A Social Housing Strategy, published on 27 October, that the cost of housing benefit will treble to more than £70 billion a year by 2050.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL11101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>In their 2018 Fiscal Sustainability Report, the Office for Budget Responsibility projected that relative to the size of the UK economy, spending on Housing Benefit in 2050/51 will be very similar to current levels, at 1.2% of GDP.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 05/11/2018 12:36:15 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

997427

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average shortfall is between housing benefit and the rent of people affected by the benefit cap who are in receipt of (a) jobseekers allowance, (b) employment support allowance, (c) income support and (d) another benefit.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	184859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The information in the table shows average shortfall between housing benefit and the contractual rent of people affected by the benefit cap in May 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Main Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Shortfall</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>a) Jobseeker's Allowance</p></td><td><p>£ 64.38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>b) Employment Support Allowance</p></td><td><p>£ 61.53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>c) Income Support</p></td><td><p>£ 59.48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>d) Other</p></td><td><p>£ 78.57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We acknowledge there could be a potential rental shortfall due to various Welfare Reforms, for example:</p><p> </p><ul><li>the Benefit Cap;</li><li>Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (RSRS) in the social rented sector;</li><li>Changes to Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates, including the 4 year freeze.</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p>These figures don’t isolate which deductions a benefit cap claimant has applied to their Housing Benefit. It should be noted however DHPs can be used by local authorities to mitigate rental shortfalls faced by claimants.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/11/2018 16:10:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck