HC Deb 12 March 2001 vol 364 c471W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what measures his Department plans to assist persons forced by recent floods to move into temporary accommodation who receive housing benefit for one property but have to pay rents for the flooded and the temporary properties. [152443]

Mr. Robert Ainsworth

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given today by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security, my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Angela Eagle),Official Report, column 460W.