Local Housing Allowance: Poverty
Commons · Question 55413 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Ian Byrne
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
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 9 Jun 2025
No 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has previously produced a poverty impact assessment using OBR economic assumptions from 30 October 2024 on an outdated version of the model...