Housing Benefit Supplement (Hansard, 17 December 1987)

HC Deb 17 December 1987 vol 124 c686W 686W

§ Mr. Frank Field
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many claimants are receiving housing benefit supplement.

§ Mr. Portillo
Information on the current number of recipients is not available, but we estimate that during the course of the 1986–87 financial year some 400,000 people received housing benefit supplement.