Oral Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
“What assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of recent violence in Israel and Palestine.”
Tabled: 12 July 2023Answered: 18 July 2023
Asked by
Mohammad Yasin
Labour — Bedford
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Answer from Hansard
Sir Stephen Timms
There is a problem in the interaction between housing benefit, which provides housing support for people in supported accommodation, and housing support in the universal credit system. That interaction does cause difficulties, and I think that is what the hon. Lady is referring to. We are looking at that at the moment. We are talking to other parts of government and working with people such as YMCA and Centrepoint to look at the problem and what we can do to fix it.