MP Lindsay Roy is backing Labour’s Bill to end the bedroom tax.

The Glenrothes and Central Fife MP, is pictured with Shadow Works and Pensions Secretary, Rachel Reeves, during an event to highlight Labour’s determination to scrap the bedroom tax.

The party has brought forward a Bill to get rid of the hated levy, which sees people living in public sector housing in receipt of housing benefit have it reduced if they are deemed to have one or more spare bedrooms.

However, a chronic shortage of smaller homes means many have to stay where they are, forcing thousands into arrears because they cannot pay their full rent.

Cardenden Tenants Association has been helping people who have run into trouble with their rent due to the bedroom tax and recently chairman Willie Duncan advised people who have suffered with problems paying their rent to go to the council office in the village and speak to officials who will offer all sorts of support and advice.

Recent research by the BBC revealed that just 6% of affected tenants have been rehoused.

The disabled, who often require an additional bedroom because of their condition, have been particularly hard hit.

Said Cardenden and Kinglassie MP, Lindsay Roy, “I am proud to support Labour’s Bill to get rid of this cruel and inhumane tax, which has caused untold misery to so many people. My office has been inundated with calls and visits from people who are at their wits’ end because they could not afford to meet this reduction in benefit.

“Fortunately, thanks to the sterling efforts of my office team, we have been able to help many constituents by contacting Fife Council to secure Discretionnary Housing Payments. However, despite our efforts, some are being forced into debt for the first time in their lives by this ill-conceived Government policy which is penalising thousands of innocent people for something they have no control over.

“Not since the Tories imposed the Poll Tax has legislation been hated so much and if the coalition won’t get rid of it, then Labour will.”