{"value":{"id":644376,"askingMemberId":1427,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2016-11-30T00:00:00","uin":"54972","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Greater Manchester have been classified as under occupying their homes in each year since 2012.","answeringBodyId":29,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Work and Pensions","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4048,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2016-11-30T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The figures requested are in the table below:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Households classified as under-occupying: Greater Manchester, 2013-2016</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>Thousands</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug-2013</strong></p></td><td><p>35.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug-2014</strong></p></td><td><p>31.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug-2015</strong></p></td><td><p>27.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug-2016</strong></p></td><td><p>25.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li><em>Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.</em></li><li><em>Figures are numbers of households receiving Housing Benefit with a spare room subsidy deduction. This policy only affects working age households in the social rented sector.</em></li><li><em>Figures have not been provided for August 2012 as the social rented sector spare room subsidy policy did not exist until April 2013.</em></li><li><em>A small number of households now receive their housing support through Universal Credit. The table covers Housing Benefit only as equivalent Universal Credit data are not yet available.</em></li></ol>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/644376","method":"GET"}]}