Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 62680

Housing Benefit

Tabled: 25 June 2025

Answered: 7 July 2025

Question

Afzal Khan

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on enhanced housing benefit in each year since 2010.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

We interpret ‘enhanced housing benefit’ as Housing Benefit payable for exempt accommodation (a category of specified accommodation in Housing Benefit regulations). The time series information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incu...

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