§ Jeremy CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimates he has made of the administrative costs of Housing Benefit for each London borough for each of the past three years. [1046]
§ Malcolm WicksThe annual expenditure on Housing Benefit administration reported by London local authorities for the last three years for which figures are available are given in the table.
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£000 Local authority 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 Barking and Dagenham 496 654 935 Barnet 1,869 2,086 1,665 Bexley 506 457 494 Brent 3,670 3,820 3,528 Bromley 1,778 1,680 1,561 Camden 3,291 3,169 3,274 City of London 232 263 204 Croydon 1,998 2,050 2,223 Ealing 3,745 4,177 3,807 Enfield 2,571 2,382 2,433 Greenwich 4,739 3,881 4,256 Hackney 5,600 4,529 5,069 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,935 2,832 2,821 Haringey 5,428 5,634 7,243 Harrow 985 1,191 1,122 Havering 915 1,021 1,059 Hillingdon 1,538 1,143 1,151
£000 Local authority 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 Hounslow 1,104 1,235 1,455 Islington 3,814 1,586 2,839 Kensington and Chelsea 3,690 3,090 2,750 Kingston upon Thames 485 484 548 Lambeth 5,052 3,679 3,938 Lewisham 6,167 7,227 6,138 Merton 664 684 946 Newham 7,363 7,691 5,581 Redbridge 1,932 2,538 2,031 Richmond upon Thames 976 853 845 Southwark 3,915 5,447 6,638 Sutton 1,209 1,190 1,280 Tower Hamlets 2,275 2,658 2,752 Waltham Forest 1,639 1,897 3,323 Wandsworth 2,096 2,101 2,447 Westminster 4,886 4,986 4,618 Source:
Reported expenditure to the DTLR on form R04.