Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 55413
Local Housing Allowance: Poverty
Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025
Question
Ian Byrne
Labour — Liverpool West Derby
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.
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsNo 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has previously produced a poverty impact assessment using OBR economic assumptions from 30 October 2024 on an outdated version of the model...
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