Housing Benefit

Part of Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 4:22 pm on 9 November 2010.

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Photo of Sajid Javid Sajid Javid Conservative, Bromsgrove 4:22, 9 November 2010

My right hon. Friend was right to point out that I was shocked to learn in the Select Committee that I had been homeless as a child. I believe, however, that the question is not so much one of the definition of homelessness as one of whether people living on housing benefit should be forced to make the same choices that other low-income working families are forced to make. Those low-income working families typically pay rent to the 30th percentile and their children are forced to share bedrooms, as they would be in any ordinary family. It should be no different for anyone on housing benefit.