Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people (a) with mental health conditions, (b) with long-term disabilities and (c) who receive social care who will be affected by the planned cap on housing benefit for tenants in supported housing.

Alistair Burt

Ministers have not yet made any official representations to other Government departments about the proposed changes to housing benefit for tenants in supported housing. Neither has the Department made any formal estimates of the people likely to be affected by the proposed changes. However, discussions are ongoing at official level between Departments.