Social Security Benefits
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households were exempted from the benefit cap for the latest period for which data is available, by (a) reason for exemption and (b) amount they would otherwise have had capped.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The requested statistics are not readily held by the Department and to produce them would incur disproportionate cost.
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