Question follow-through · 93800
Temporary Accommodation: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the amount of the Housing Benefit subsidy for temporary accommodation cases being less than Local Housing Allowance rates on the quality of tempora
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 28 Nov 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the amount of the Housing Benefit subsidy for temporary accommodation cases being less than Local Housing Allowance rates on the quality of tempora
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2025
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 the lowest of £500 per week in certain areas of London or £375 elsewhere, 90% of 2011 LHA r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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