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date	29/08/2014
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, if he will make an estimate of (a) the amount of savings accruing to the public purse through penalties incurred on housing benefit arising from the under occupancy penalty to date and (b) the amount paid in discretionary housing payments in that time.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	207317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p>a) The Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy is estimated to save around £500 million per year in 2013/14 and 2014/15.</p><p>b) In 2013/14 total discretionary housing payment expenditure by local authorities across Great Britain was £176,393,889. This figure includes amounts spent by Local Authorities over and above their government contribution in DHP funding. At the end of the financial year, 240 out of 380 LAs across Great Britain under-spent by £13,285,430 against the available government contribution. This was in addition to the £7,111,693 unallocated from the £20 million reserve fund.</p><p>Detailed information about discretionary housing payment expenditure was published in June 2014 and can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/322455/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-june-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/322455/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-june-2014.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/09/2014 13:42:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

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registered interest
date	17/07/2014
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, how many benefit claimants have declined to move into a property with fewer bedrooms, having been offered that option of doing so under the Government's under-occupancy penalty policy.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	206492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 22/07/2014 16:51:55 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron