<p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.</p><p>The Government do not collect these statistics.</p><p>An independent evaluation of the removal of the spare room subsidy has been commissioned and is expected to publish interim findings in spring 2014.</p><p>I also refer the hon. Member to the recent Opposition Day debate motion, passed by the House, which observed:</p><p>"notes the substantial structural deficit which was inherited from the previous Government and the need to get the nation's finances back into shape; further notes the need to bring expenditure on housing benefit under control; further notes that the proposed reversal of this policy would cost the Exchequer around half a billion pounds a year; regrets any exaggeration and misrepresentation of the effects of the policy; recognises the inequality of allowing social tenants to receive benefit for a spare bedroom whilst denying this opportunity to private tenants; supports the Government's action to deal with this unfairness whilst protecting vulnerable groups such as pensioners and providing substantial funding through Discretionary Housing Payments to local authorities to support other tenants who would otherwise be adversely affected;</p><p>further notes the Government's continuing commitment to monitor the effects of the policy and the use of Discretionary Housing Payments; and welcomes the potential beneficial impact of this policy on those living in overcrowded accommodation and the 2.1 million families on waiting lists."</p>