To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the amount payable in housing benefit and the housing element of universal credit decreasing when a non-dependent's earnings increase, what recent representations he has received on reducing the bracket for non-dependents' earnings.

There are no income bands and only one deduction rate applied to Universal Credit claimants who have non-dependents living in their household.

There have been no recent representations to reduce the income bands for non-dependents’ earnings for people receiving Housing Benefit.