Frank Field
Chair, Draft Modern Slavery Bill Committee, Chair, Draft Modern Slavery Bill Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what savings he expects to realise as a result of the implementation of the under-occupancy penalty in each year to 2015-16.
Esther McVey
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
The intention of this policy is to ensure fairer use of housing stock.
The estimated savings in each year for the removal of the spare room subsidy measure are £490 million in 2013-14, £525 million in 2014-15 and £560 million in 2015-16.
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