§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will take steps to restore the £6 housing benefit subsidy per week for each child aged under 11 years in a homeless family in bed-and-breakfast accommodation which resulted from recent changes in the benefit system.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThe arrangements for subsiclising housing benefit paid to homeless families in bed-and-breakfast accommodation, including those with children under the age of 11, enable local authorities to receive an equivalent level of support in 1989–90 to that provided to them through income support prior to 10 April 1989.