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Work and Pensions Committee announces forthcoming publication: Support for housing costs in the reformed welfare system
Work and Pensions Committee
Select Committee Press Notice
AN37 2013–14
27 March 2014
For immediate release
Work and Pensions Committee announces publication of report, Support for housing costs in the reformed welfare system
The Work and Pensions Select Committee will publish its report, Support for housing costs in the reformed welfare system, at 00.01 am on Wednesday 2 April. It will be available under embargo to the media and those who gave written and oral evidence only on the morning of Tuesday 1 April.
This inquiry examined the impact of various recent reforms to housing costs support, including:
- the social sector size criteria (also referred to as the “removal of the spare room subsidy” or “bedroom tax”)
- the household Benefit Cap
- changes to Housing Benefit for claimants in the private rented sector (Local Housing Allowance);
- localisation of Council Tax support
- incorporation of Housing Benefit into Universal Credit
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Committee membership:
Dame Anne Begg MP (Chair) (Lab, Aberdeen South), Debbie Abrahams MP (Lab, Oldham East and Saddleworth), Graham Evans MP (Con, Weaver Vale), Sheila Gilmore MP (Lab, Edinburgh East), Glenda Jackson MP (Lab, Hampstead and Highgate), Kwasi Kwarteng MP (Con, Spelthorne), Nigel Mills MP (Con, Amber Valley), Anne Marie Morris MP (Con, Newton Abbot), Teresa Pearce MP (Lab, Erith and Thamesmead), Mr Michael Thornton MP (Lib Dem, Eastleigh), Dame Angela Watkinson (Con, Hornchurch and Upminster).
Specific Committee Information: silcockd@parliament.uk 0207 219 5832 or workpencom@parliament.uk 020 7219 2839
Media Information: fosterda@parliament.uk 020 7219 7556
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