A delayed interim review of the bedroom tax will be published by the summer recess, Lord David Freud said this week.
Inside Housing has reported:
Baroness Quin quizzed the welfare minister in the House of Lords as in October last year he had said the report would be published by spring.
Lord Freud didn’t respond twice when challenged about why it was delayed, also by Lord Richard, however a spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said that the timeline for the report to be published had always been ‘in due course’.
Kris Hopkins, housing minister, also said last November in a bedroom tax debate in Westminster Hallthat the report would be published in April.
Lord Freud added that there will be a full report in 2015, when asked about whether the interim report will contain details on how the tax affects people with conditions such as Parkinson’s.
He said the DWP are encouraging people to take in lodgers ‘when appropriate’ and that housing associations and councils tend to ‘accept’ lodgers into their social homes.