§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for each district council area in Wales and for Wales as a whole his Department's estimate of(a) the number of people claiming housing benefit, (b) the number of people entitled to housing benefit who are not currently entering a claim and (c) (b) as a percentage of the total number entitled to claim housing benefit; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesInformation on the estimated number of recipients of housing benefit is published in table 9.6 of "Welsh Housing Statistics No. 13, 1993", a copy of which is in the Library of the House. There are no estimates at local authority or Welsh level of the number of people entitled to housing benefit. However, estimates of housing benefit take-up in Great Britain are included in the Department of Social Security's publication "Income Related Benefits: Estimates of Take-Up in 1990 and 1991" which is also available in the Library of the House.