HC Deb 25 January 2000 vol 343 c170W
Mr. Salmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the cost of abolishing the single room rent restriction for under 25s in(a) the UK and (b) Scotland. [106575]

Angela Eagle

We are unable to estimate with any accuracy the cost of abolishing the Single Room Rent restriction. There is insufficient quantitative information on how this group responded to the change, and without this information we cannot estimate the behavioural effects of reversing the change.