| Heading: |
Local Housing Allowance: Uprating |
| Question ID: |
1792685 |
| UIN: |
44399 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-07 |
| Asking Member ID: |
415 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Fabian Hamilton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Fabian Hamilton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of not uprating the Local Housing Allowance on (a) poverty and (b) homelessness; and whether she plans to increase rates in line with rental costs. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4083 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alison McGovern
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| Answering Member handle: |
Alison_McGovern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@Alison_McGovern
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| Answer text: |
No assessment has been made using current economic assumptions and methodological practices. However, the department has previously produced a poverty impact assessment using OBR economic assumptions from 30th October 2024 on an outdated version of the mo... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |