Question follow-through · 56828

Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a disabled person in their household pay a spare room subsidy payment.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
5 Jun 2025
Answer
11 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a disabled person in their household pay a spare room subsidy payment.

  2. 5 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Easements from RSRS deductions allow for the provision of an additional bedroom to support the needs of disabled people and families of disabled children such as where members of the household are unable to share a bedroom or where overnight care is requi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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