Housing Benefit

Part of Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 5:39 pm on 9 November 2010.

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Photo of Nick Raynsford Nick Raynsford Labour, Greenwich and Woolwich 5:39, 9 November 2010

No. I will not give way because I have very little time left. The Minister should remember that private tenants who are dependent on housing benefit may find that they are priced out of the market as a result of the Government's policies. I am surprised that he and his party are prepared to countenance that.

The hard questions that Ministers must answer-they have not done so-is simply: where will the tens, and perhaps hundreds, of thousands of LHA recipients go when their allowance is cut to a level that makes it impossible for them to make up the shortfall, and their landlord declines to reduce the rent?