John Healey – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Healey on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library the model and detailed methodology used for the forecast of the effects of affordable rent on housing benefit expenditure published by his Department in the document, Impact Assessment for Affordable Rent, in June 2011.

Kris Hopkins

The Affordable Rent Impact Assessment, published in June 2011, sets out the methodology and assumptions used at the time to model the expected impact of Affordable Rent on Housing Benefit expenditure. The Impact Assessment is published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/6021/1918816.pdf

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