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Housing Benefit

Volume 328: debated on Monday 22 March 1999

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans he has to amend the housing benefit system. [77738]

Our aim is to modernise Housing Benefit so that it is fairer, better administered, secure and promotes the incentive to work. A Housing Green paper will be published later this year which will discuss options for reforms to Housing Benefit within the context of housing policy.