MPs take evidence on the cap on Housing Benefit
3 November 2010
This is the final oral evidence session in the inquiry into the changes to Housing Benefit announced in the 2010 Budget.
- Work and Pensions Committee
- Watch the meeting: Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the 2010 Budget
It will provide an opportunity for the committee to question the Department of Work and Pensions Minister on a wide range of issues raised during the inquiry. These include the implications of the changes for:
- Incentives to work and access to low paid work
- Levels of rent, including regional variations
- Shortfalls in rent
- Levels of evictions and the impact on homelessness services
- Landlord confidence
- Community cohesion
- Disabled people, carers and specialist housing
- Older people, large families and overcrowding
Witnesses
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 3 November 2010 in the Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
At 9.30am
Department for Work and Pensions
- Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform
- Neil Couling, Benefit Strategy Director
- Paul Howarth, Divisional Manager, Housing Benefit Strategy Division