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Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 54972, tabled on 25 November 2016

Question

Andy Burnham
Labour
Leigh
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Greater Manchester have been classified as under occupying their homes in each year since 2012.

Answer

Caroline Nokes
Conservative
Romsey and Southampton North
Commons

Answered on

30 November 2016

The figures requested are in the table below:

Households classified as under-occupying: Greater Manchester, 2013-2016

Thousands

Aug-2013

35.4

Aug-2014

31.1

Aug-2015

27.9

Aug-2016

25.0

Notes:

  1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
  2. Figures are numbers of households receiving Housing Benefit with a spare room subsidy deduction. This policy only affects working age households in the social rented sector.
  3. Figures have not been provided for August 2012 as the social rented sector spare room subsidy policy did not exist until April 2013.
  4. A small number of households now receive their housing support through Universal Credit. The table covers Housing Benefit only as equivalent Universal Credit data are not yet available.

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