Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 60312

Housing Benefit and Social Rented Housing: Costs

Tabled: 16 June 2025
Answered: 24 June 2025

Question

Martin Wrigley

Liberal DemocratNewton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of (a) Housing Benefit and (b) the provision of social housing in each of the next ten years.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The information requested on Housing Benefit (HB) expenditure over the next ten years is not readily available, and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However, expenditure on HB for the years up to and including 2029/30 is available in the B...

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