Housing Benefit Reduction For Those Deemed to have Excess Bedrooms
There have been votes in Parliament on the introduction, and operation of, a policy to restrict housing benefit for those in social housing deemed to have excess bedrooms. This policy has been called the "Bedroom Tax" by Labour and some commentators
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Lucy Powell has never voted in a major vote about reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")
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On 12 Chw 2014:
Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Housing Benefit and Universal Credit — Regular Payments and Penalty for Excess Bedrooms
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On 8 Mai 2018:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to give local councils the freedom to decide if benefits to cover housing costs should be reduced in respect of excess bedrooms in cases of new local council secure tenancies offered to victims of domestic abuse.
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On 17 Rha 2014:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to abolish housing benefit penalties for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 17 Rha 2014:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to abolish housing benefit penalties for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 26 Tach 2014:
Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Opposition Day — Government Policies (Wales)
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On 14 Hyd 2014:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio for an exception from the excess bedroom benefit penalty for people who require an extra bedroom due to their need for care.
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On 5 Med 2014:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio for exemptions to the benefit penalty applied to social housing tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms and to require a report on affordable housing.
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On 26 Chw 2014:
Lucy Powell was absent for a vote on Housing Benefit — Penalty for Excess Bedrooms — Removal of Unintended Exemption
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On 18 Rha 2013:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio to publish the results of research into food banks; to freeze energy prices; for a water affordability scheme; for measures to end abuses of zero hours contracts; to incentivise those paying the living wage and to abolish the under-occupancy penalty for social housing tenants.
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On 12 Tach 2013:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against reducing housing benefit for those deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 12 Tach 2013:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against a reduction in housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 27 Chw 2013:
Lucy Powell wedi pleidleisio against a housing benefit under-occupancy penalty.
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