Welfare Benefits: Rent Arrears

Part of Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at on 14 September 2020.

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Photo of Bob Blackman Bob Blackman Conservative, Harrow East

I thank my hon. Friend for his answer. As he will know, it is estimated that 125,000 people are now in rent arrears, with rent not being paid to landlords. Many of those people will be in receipt of either universal credit or housing benefit. What steps can he take to ensure that that rent will be paid to landlords and to prevent spiralling debts that are impossible for people to repay, so that landlords are paid their rent and tenants do not fall into unnecessary rent arrears?