questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the private rented sector are in receipt of the housing element of Universal Credit; of those households, how many have rents which exceed the local housing allowance rate; and what is the median gap between the rent and the local housing allowance broken down by the number of children in the household in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales, for the most recent period for which data is available.
answerText: We are unable to provide a breakdown of estimates as providing this information will take us over the resource requirement for this PQ due to data quality issues.Government spends around £30bn annually on housing support. In addition, Local Housing Allowa...
heading: Universal Credit: Social Rented Housing