§ Ms BuckTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list the(a) number of recipients of working families tax credit who are also in receipt of housing benefit (i) in England and (ii) each English region and (b) estimated current net cost of discounting working families tax credit for the purposes of calculating housing benefit for existing claimants. [26244]
§ Malcolm WicksInformation on the number of housing benefit recipients in England who are also receiving working families tax credit by Government office region is in the table.
It is estimated that the net cost in 2000–01 of discounting working families tax credit in calculating entitlement to housing benefit for benefit recipients in Great Britain at May 2000 would have been £250 million.
Government office region Number of housing benefit recipients also receiving working families tax credit North East 12,000 North West 26,000 Yorkshire and Humberside 20,000 East Midlands 14,000 West Midlands 21,000 East 16,000 London 28,000 South East 29,000 South West 19,000 England Total 185,000 Notes:
1. The data refer to households, which may be a single person, a 1couple or a family.
2. The figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.
3. Figures include those people in receipt of either the standard working families tax credit or the 30 hour premium working families tax credit.
Source:
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System, annual one per cent, sample, taken in May 2000. This is the latest available data source that provides the number of housing benefit recipients who also receive working families tax credit.