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Angela Eagle
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The information requested is not available in the format requested as the Department does not collect data on the total number of private sector landlords. The table gives information on the number of tenants in receipt of rent allowance in each local authority.
| Rent allowance recipients in the private sector in England (excluding housing association) August 1998 |
| Local authority |
Recipients |
| Adur |
810 |
| Allerdale |
1,420 |
| Alnwick |
440 |
| Amber Valley |
1,410 |
| Arun |
3,120 |
| Ashfield |
1,360 |
| Ashford |
890 |
| Aylesbury Vale |
900 |
| Babergh |
910 |
| Barking |
2,240 |
| Barnet |
6,920 |
| Barnsley |
3,200 |
| Barrow in Furness |
2,300 |
| Basildon |
1,450 |
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| Rent allowance recipients in the private sector in England (excluding housing association) August 1998 |
| Local authority |
Recipients |
| Basingstoke and Deane |
590 |
| Bassetlaw |
1,510 |
| Bath and North East Somerset |
2,330 |
| Bedford |
1,960 |
| Berwick upon Tweed |
480 |
| Bexley |
2,700 |
| Birmingham |
17,240 |
| Blaby |
470 |
| Blackburn with Darwen |
2,630 |
| Blackpool |
8,690 |
| Blyth Valley |
830 |
| Bolsover |
1,470 |
| Bolton |
3,990 |
| Boston |
540 |
| Bournemouth |
7,380 |
| Bracknell Forest |
600 |
| Bradford |
10,900 |
| Braintree |
1,200 |
| Breckland |
1,230 |
| Brent |
10,060 |
| Brentwood |
420 |
| Bridgnorth |
520 |
| Brighton and Hove |
13,290 |
| Bristol |
7,590 |
| Broadland |
1,060 |
| Bromley |
3,110 |
| Bromsgrove |
510 |
| Broxbourne |
710 |
| Broxtowe |
1,350 |
| Burnley |
2,390 |
| Bury |
2,070 |
| Calderdale |
3,470 |
| Cambridge |
1,010 |
| Camden |
5,650 |
| Cannock Chase |
740 |
| Canterbury |
2,720 |
| Caradon |
2,050 |
| Carlisle |
1,320 |
| Carrick |
2,290 |
| Castle Morpeth |
440 |
| Castle Point |
1,230 |
| Charnwood |
2,010 |
| Chelmsford |
1,010 |
| Cheltenham |
1,760 |
| Cherwell |
1,330 |
| Chester |
1,790 |
| Chester le Street |
490 |
| Chesterfield |
1,710 |
| Chichester |
1,190 |
| Chiltern |
1,220 |
| Chorley |
910 |
| Christchurch |
500 |
| City of London |
120 |
| Colchester |
2,050 |
| Congleton |
570 |
| Copeland |
1,010 |
| Corby |
430 |
| Cotswold |
850 |
| Coventry |
6,740 |
| Craven |
810 |
| Crawley |
410 |
| Crewe and Nantwich |
1,300 |
| Croydon |
7,600 |
| Dacorum |
890 |
| Darlington |
1,760 |
| Dartford |
1,020 |
| Daventry |
370 |
| Derby |
4,020 |
| Derbyshire Dales |
610 |
| Derwentside |
1,260 |
| Doncaster |
5,070 |
| Dover |
3,070 |
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| Rent allowance recipients in the private sector in England (excluding housing association) August 1998 |
| Local authority |
Recipients |
| Dudley |
2,050 |
| Durham |
610 |
| Ealing |
7,370 |
| Easington |
1,420 |
| East Cambridgeshire |
570 |
| East Devon |
2,070 |
| East Dorset |
740 |
| East Hampshire |
860 |
| East Hertfordshire |
750 |
| East Lindsey |
3,320 |
| East Northamptonshire |
720 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire |
5,870 |
| East Staffordshire |
1,370 |
| Eastbourne |
3,050 |
| Eastleigh |
910 |
| Eden |
600 |
| Ellesmere Port and Neston |
620 |
| Elmbridge |
1,100 |
| Enfield |
5,620 |
| Epping Forest |
1,150 |
| Epsom and Ewell |
580 |
| Erewash |
2,140 |
| Exeter |
2,510 |
| Fareham |
600 |
| Fenland |
1,450 |
| Forest Heath |
500 |
| Forest of Dean |
820 |
| Fylde |
1,580 |
| Gateshead |
3,860 |
| Gedling |
1,350 |
| Gloucester |
2,500 |
| Gosport |
890 |
| Gravesham |
1,530 |
| Great Yarmouth |
3,080 |
| Greenwich |
4,410 |
| Guildford |
1,180 |
| Hackney |
8,710 |
| Halton |
1,520 |
| Hambleton |
880 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham |
4,080 |
| Harborough |
370 |
| Haringey |
11,870 |
| Harlow |
540 |
| Harrogate |
2,110 |
| Harrow |
4,060 |
| Hart |
360 |
| Hartlepool |
2,190 |
| Hastings |
5,330 |
| Havant |
1,080 |
| Havering |
2,500 |
| Herefordshire |
2,670 |
| Hertsmere |
650 |
| High Peak |
1,300 |
| Hillingdon |
3,140 |
| Hinckley and Bosworth |
730 |
| Horsham |
790 |
| Hounslow |
3,620 |
| Huntingdonshire |
1,080 |
| Hyndburn |
2,120 |
| Ipswich |
2,210 |
| Isle of Wight |
4,140 |
| Isles of Scilly |
20 |
| Islington |
4,700 |
| Kennet |
750 |
| Kensington and Chelsea |
3,470 |
| Kerrier |
2,700 |
| Kettering |
900 |
| Kings Lynn and West Norfolk |
1,850 |
| Kingston upon Hull |
7,810 |
| Kingston upon Thames |
1,460 |
| Kirklees |
6,440 |
| Knowsley |
2,950 |
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| Rent allowance recipients in the private sector in England (excluding housing association) August 1998 |
| Local authority |
Recipients |
| Lambeth |
7,170 |
| Lancaster |
4,590 |
| Leeds |
10,640 |
| Leicester |
3,960 |
| Lewes |
1,660 |
| Lewisham |
7,000 |
| Lichfield |
510 |
| Lincoln |
2,040 |
| Liverpool |
20,680 |
| Luton |
3,870 |
| Macclesfield |
1,360 |
| Maidstone |
1,480 |
| Maldon |
670 |
| Malvern Hills |
680 |
| Manchester |
14,160 |
| Mansfield |
1,610 |
| Medway |
4,750 |
| Melton |
430 |
| Mendip |
1,850 |
| Merton |
3,000 |
| Mid Bedfordshire |
620 |
| Mid Devon |
1,160 |
| Mid Suffolk |
660 |
| Mid Sussex |
1,000 |
| Middlesbrough |
2,980 |
| Milton Keynes |
1,660 |
| Mole Valley |
600 |
| New Forest |
1,840 |
| Newark and Sherwood |
1,280 |
| Newcastle under Lyme |
940 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
6,290 |
| Newham |
12,960 |
| North Cornwall |
2,680 |
| North Devon |
2,690 |
| North Dorset |
410 |
| North East Derby |
690 |
| North East Lincoln |
4,820 |
| North Hertfordshire |
900 |
| North Kesteven |
730 |
| North Lincolnshire |
2,280 |
| North Norfolk |
1,920 |
| North Shropshire |
710 |
| North Somerset |
4,050 |
| North Tyneside |
3,470 |
| North Warwickshire |
750 |
| North West Leicester |
610 |
| North Wiltshire |
820 |
| Northampton |
2,100 |
| Norwich |
2,490 |
| Nottingham |
5,980 |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth |
1,460 |
| Oadby and Wigston |
480 |
| Oldham |
2,670 |
| Oswestry |
520 |
| Oxford |
2,480 |
| Pendle |
1,900 |
| Penwith |
2,470 |
| Peterborough |
3,120 |
| Plymouth |
7,730 |
| Poole |
2,280 |
| Portsmouth |
4,980 |
| Preston |
1,790 |
| Purbeck |
730 |
| Reading |
2,750 |
| Redbridge |
6,650 |
| Redcar and Cleveland |
2,100 |
| Redditch |
460 |
| Reigate and Banstead |
790 |
| Restormel |
3,070 |
| Ribble Valley |
500 |
| Richmond upon Thames |
2,190 |
| Richmondshire |
450 |
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| Rent allowance recipients in the private sector in England (excluding housing association) August 1998 |
| Local authority |
Recipients |
| Rochdale |
3,420 |
| Rochford |
830 |
| Rossendale |
1,060 |
| Rother |
2,460 |
| Rotherham |
3,010 |
| Rugby |
670 |
| Runnymede |
670 |
| Rushcliffe |
950 |
| Rushmoor |
750 |
| Rutland |
260 |
| Ryedale |
690 |
| Salford |
4,540 |
| Salisbury |
1,630 |
| Sandwell |
2,940 |
| Scarborough |
3,490 |
| Sedgefield |
850 |
| Sedgemoor |
1,750 |
| Sefton |
6,470 |
| Selby |
510 |
| Sevenoaks |
860 |
| Sheffield |
5,660 |
| Shepway |
3,710 |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham |
1,140 |
| Slough |
1,520 |
| Solihull |
1,180 |
| South Bedfordshire |
820 |
| South Buckinghamshire |
350 |
| South Cambridgeshire |
610 |
| South Derbyshire |
1,020 |
| South Gloucestershire |
1,630 |
| South Hams |
1,610 |
| South Holland |
570 |
| South Kesteven |
1,320 |
| South Lakeland |
1,490 |
| South Norfolk |
1,000 |
| South Northants |
410 |
| South Oxfordshire |
910 |
| South Ribble |
620 |
| South Shropshire |
650 |
| South Somerset |
1,940 |
| South Staffordshire |
590 |
| South Tyneside |
2,060 |
| Southampton |
5,460 |
| Southend on Sea |
7,040 |
| Southwark |
3,950 |
| Spelthorne |
720 |
| St. Albans |
790 |
| St. Edmunsbury |
820 |
| St. Helens |
2,100 |
| Stafford |
880 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands |
740 |
| Stevenage |
1,170 |
| Stockport |
3,620 |
| Stockton on Tees |
2,620 |
| Stoke on Trent |
3,810 |
| Stratford on Avon |
1,060 |
| Stroud |
1,180 |
| Suffolk Coastal |
1,810 |
| Sunderland |
4,670 |
| Surrey Heath |
330 |
| Sutton |
1,550 |
| Swale |
2,310 |
| Swindon |
1,670 |
| Tameside |
3,330 |
| Tamworth |
500 |
| Tandridge |
460 |
| Taunton Deane |
1,950 |
| Teesdale |
390 |
| Teignbridge |
2,850 |
| Telford and Wrekin |
1,310 |
| Tendring |
3,930 |
| Test Valley |
640 |
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| Rent allowance recipients in the private sector in England (excluding housing association) August 1998 |
| Local authority |
Recipients |
| Tewkesbury |
680 |
| Thanet |
6,490 |
| Three Rivers |
480 |
| Thurrock |
1,830 |
| Tonbridge and Mailing |
830 |
| Torbay |
6,560 |
| Torridge |
1,920 |
| Tower Hamlets |
2,610 |
| Trafford |
2,480 |
| Tunbridge Wells |
1,160 |
| Tynedale |
600 |
| Uttlesford |
500 |
| Vale of White Horse |
690 |
| Vale Royal |
820 |
| Wakefield |
3,450 |
| Walsall |
2,120 |
| Waltham Forest |
8,830 |
| Wandsworth |
5,630 |
| Wansbeck |
1,230 |
| Warrington |
1,650 |
| Warwick |
1,230 |
| Watford |
1,020 |
| Waveney |
4,100 |
| Waverley |
830 |
| Wealden |
1,670 |
| Wear Valley |
950 |
| Wellingborough |
660 |
| Welwyn Hatfield |
470 |
| West Berkshire |
980 |
| West Devon |
1,060 |
| West Dorset |
1,170 |
| West Lancashire |
1,330 |
| West Lindsey |
1,210 |
| West Oxfordshire |
820 |
| West Somerset |
990 |
| West Wiltshire |
1,620 |
| Westminster |
5,660 |
| Weymouth and Portland |
1,750 |
| Wigan |
3,270 |
| Winchester |
750 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead |
1,080 |
| Wirral |
11,730 |
| Woking |
560 |
| Wokingham |
550 |
| Wolverhampton |
2,810 |
| Worcester |
1,350 |
| Worthing |
2,520 |
| Wychavon |
710 |
| Wycombe |
850 |
| Wyre |
2,060 |
| Wyre Forest |
1,050 |
| York |
2,380 |
Source:
Housing Benefit Management Information System.