§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list each local authority in England which achieved(a) less than 50 per cent. and (b) between 50 per cent. and 60 per cent. of its target level of weekly benefit savings resulting from the detection of housing benefit fraud in the last available year; and if he will list the actual percentage achieved by each local authority which achieved less than 50 per cent. of its target. [7147]
§ Mr. Roger EvansThe information for the latest available year, 1994–95, is set out in the table.
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Local authority Percentage of weekly benefit savings threshold achieved Between 50 per cent. and 60 per cent. of threshold achieved Chiltern 58 Blyth Valley 58 Tower Hamlets 57 Bromley 56 Thamesdown 53 North Wiltshire 53 Coventry 52 Sutton 51 Colchester 51 Wirral 51 Kirklees 50 Kingston Upon Hull 50 Bexley 50 Less than 50 per cent. of threshold achieved Hart 45 Sedgefield 38 Knowsley 30 Rutland 27 Wansbeck 24
Local authority Percentage of weekly benefit savings threshold achieved Nuneaton 20 Congleton 18 North-West Leicester 8 Isles of Scilly 0 South Bedfordshire 0 Teesdale 0