Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 25 February 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for what reasons residential properties owned by local authorities for temporary accommodation are not included in the definition of temporary accommodation in the Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2012.
In framing these regulations (the Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2012, SI 2102/3040) Ministers decided that it would be contrary to the purpose of the regulations to exclude from their effect accommodation which local authorities provided from their own stock when discharging their functions under part 3 of the Housing Act 1985, part 7 of the Housing Act 1996 or (in Scotland) part 2 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 or to prevent the claimant being or becoming homeless within the meaning of part 7 of the Housing Act 1996 or (in Scotland) part 2 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.
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