| Heading: |
Local Housing Allowance: Poverty |
| Question ID: |
1807002 |
| UIN: |
55413 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4831 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ian Byrne
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| Asking Member handle: |
IanByrneMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@IanByrneMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the decision to freeze Local Housing Allowance on rates of poverty. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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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has previously produced a poverty impact assessment using OBR economic assumptions from 30 October 2024 on an outdated version of the model... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |