Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 111539

Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

Tabled: 6 February 2026
Answered: 12 February 2026
Named Day

Question

Rebecca Smith

ConservativeSouth West Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department will publish (a) national and (b) regional breakdowns of under-occupied social rented housing.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department has not recently evaluated the effectiveness of the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy. Information on the number of households subjected to the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy, by nations and regions, is available on Stat-Xplore via the H...

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