Question follow-through · 4780
Temporary Accommodation: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will remove the cap on housing benefit subsidy rates for temporary accommodation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Local Housing Allowance: Shared Housing · 29 Apr 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will remove the cap on housing benefit subsidy rates for temporary accommodation.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2024
Answer published
DWP pays local authorities a Housing Benefit subsidy for temporary accommodation cases. There are restrictions on the amount paid, including a subsidy cap which is £500 per week in certain areas of London or £375 elsewhere. We appreciate these are difficu...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Local Housing Allowance: Shared Housing
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