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Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

Commons · Question 111539 · Tabled 6 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 12 Feb 2026

Question

Asked by Rebecca Smith

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

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 12 Feb 2026

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...