Housing Benefit and Social Rented Housing: Costs
Commons · Question 60312 · Tabled 16 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
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
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 24 Jun 2025
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...