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date	04/03/2021
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	Public Expenditure: Debt and Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential effect of Budget 2021 on levels of (a) poverty and (b) household debt; and if she will publish that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	163280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2021 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This Government champions the principle of work as the best route out of poverty and towards financial independence. Our approach is based on clear evidence about the importance of employment, particularly where it is full-time, in substantially reducing the risk of poverty and is underpinned by our Plan for Jobs which will support economic recovery through new schemes including the Kickstart Scheme, the Restart Scheme and our Job Entry Targeted Support Scheme. We are also on track to fulfil our commitment to recruit 13,500 Work Coaches this financial year. Through our Jobcentre network, these Work Coaches will provide our claimants with the tailored support they need to move into work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/03/2021 14:47:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1299734

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date	04/03/2021
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	Local Housing Allowance: Homelessness and Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the real terms cut to Local Housing Allowance rates in 2021-22 on levels of (a) poverty and (b) homelessness; and if she will publish that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	163281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates were increased in April 2020 to the 30th percentile of local rents costing almost £1 billion providing 1.5 million claimants with around £600 more housing support per year than they would otherwise have received. For 2021/22 LHA rates are to be maintained at their increased level, ensuring all claimants who benefited from the significant increase last year will continue to do so.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, as announced on 3 March, we will be extending the exemption for care leavers and former residents of homeless hostels to all qualifying under 25 year olds from June 2021. This will bring forward the planned implementation of these previously announced changed by over 2 years.</p><p> </p><p>For those who require additional support with housing costs Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available. Since 2011 we have provided over £1 billion in DHP funding.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/03/2021 15:56:36 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden