Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 39871

Tabled: 2 November 2026

Question

Mr Joshua Reynolds

Liberal Democrat — Maidenhead

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review the rules on paying Housing Benefit to tenants who are in rent arrears; and what data his Department holds on the number of claimants in arrears of eight weeks or more whose H