Under-occupancy Penalty (Disabled People)

Part of Women and Equalities – in the House of Commons am 9:30 am ar 27 Tachwedd 2014.

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Photo of Mark Harper Mark Harper Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Disabled People) 9:30, 27 Tachwedd 2014

I note that the right hon. Gentleman did not deal with the point that I made. We are treating people in the social housing sector in exactly the same way as the previous Government treated them—[Interruption.] I hear someone heckling on the Labour Benches. Disabled people do not get a spare room subsidy in the private sector. Those rules were implemented by the previous Labour Government. This is a matter of fairness. The £345 million we have made available to local authorities over the past two years for discretionary housing payment gives them the flexibility they need to deal with individual circumstances.