§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many households in each local authority area register will be receiving council tax benefit if each local authority raises its expenditure to the provisional capping limit announced in the local government settlement on 2 December. [20565]
§ Mr. Field[holding answer 15 December 1997]: The average number of Council Tax Benefit claimants would be approximately 35,000 higher in England, if each English local authority raised its expenditure to the provisional capping limit announced in the local government settlement on 2 December.
Notes:
1. The figure is rounded to the nearest 5,000.
2. Modelled using 1995–96 Family Resources Survey data uprated to 1997–98 prices, benefit and earnings levels, and provisional 1998–99 Council tax levels.