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  Housing Benefit
  
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  @MP voted aye against reducing housing benefit for those who have been on Jobseekers Allowance for over a year. 
  
  @MP voted no in support of government plans to reduce housing benefit for those who have been on Jobseekers Allowance for over a year. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted against a motion calling for the Government to revise their proposals to reduce housing benefit payments to those who receive it as result of being unemployed once they've been out of work for 12 months. 
  
  
  The text of the rejected motion, introduced by Labour MP Douglas Alexander was[1]:
  
  :That this House
  :''believes'' that, whilst housing benefit is in need of reform, the Government's proposals will mean significant losses for hundreds of thousands of working families and pensioners and risk spending an additional Â£120 million on the cost of providing temporary accommodation; and
  :''calls on'' the Government to bring forward revised proposals for the reform of housing benefit which do not penalise those who have been unable to secure employment within 12 months, and which ensure that any proposals are implemented on a revised timetable which allows councils, tenants and landlords to adjust, allows the impact on rents to be observed and understood, and avoids additional spending on temporary accommodation.
  
  During the debate MP William Bain put the government's plan into his own words:
  :proposals to slash housing benefit payments by 10% for those who find themselves on jobseeker's allowance for 12 months or 
  
  
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  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2010-11-09a.147.2 Douglas Alexander MP, House of Commons 9th November 2010]
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2010-11-09a.147.1 William Bain (Glasgow North East, Labour) House of Commons, 9 November 2010]
  
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