Question follow-through · 23606
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the bedroom tax on the number of incidences of exploitation by criminals taking over the homes of vulnerable people.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 43 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the bedroom tax on the number of incidences of exploitation by criminals taking over the homes of vulnerable people.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
No such assessment is planned. Taking over of a person’s home for use by criminals, also known as ‘cuckooing’, is an appalling practice which can drive violence, exploitation and anti-social behaviour in our communities. The Government’s Safer Streets Mis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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