§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will estimate the changes in the weekly amount of housing benefit payable to a person with the following amounts of capital(a) £5,100, (b) £6,100, (c) £7,100, (d) £8,100, (e) £10,100, (f) £12,100 and (g) £15,100, as a result of the April changes.
§ Mr. PortilloWith a capital holding of £5,100, changes in housing benefit entitlement will vary, depending upon how much interest is received at present, because that will affect entitlement under the current scheme. At £6,000, entitlement to benefit will cease altogether. Those with
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§ Mr. NewtonThe details as requested are shown in the table.
capital above £6,000 may or may not qualify for housing benefit under the present scheme depending on the interest which they receive and on their other income.
§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing the numbers claiming housing benefit in each housing authority in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Portillo[holding answer 21 March 1988]: The information available is given in the table. The figures represent the estimated numbers of benefit recipients in each authority. The number of unsuccessful claims is not available.
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Estimated numbers of housing benefit recipients in England and Wales1: 1987–88 Authority Recipients Aberconwy 6,456 Adur 6,610 Allderdale 11,160 Alnwick 3,420 Alyn and Deeside 9,100 Amber Valley 11,404 Arfon 8,325 Arun 14,450 Ashfield 10,929 326W
Authority Recipients Ashford 12,210 Aylesbury Vale 8,651 Babergh 7,927 Barking 21,542 Barnet 27,710 Barnsley 31,336 Barrow in Furness 10,260 Basildon 18,360 Basingstoke 8,700 Bassetlaw 11,170 Bath 10,494 Berwick-upon-Tweed 3,282 Beverley 8,572 Bexley 17,020 Birmingham 208,100 Blaby 5,817 Blackburn 21,314 Blackpool 24,800 Blaenau Gwent 11,268 Blyth Valley 10,468 Bolsover 9,619 Bolton 34,293 Boothferry 6,815 Boston 7,050 Bournemouth 28,000 Bracknell 6,639 Bradford 64,600 Braintree 11,210 Breckland 10,259 Brecknock 3,446 Brent 29,350 Brentwood 4,910 Bridgnorth 4,279 Brighton 23,700 Bristol 59,391 Broadland 7,816 Bromley 21,000 Bromsgrove 10,135 Broxbourne 6,040 Broxtowe 10,700 Burnley 10,435 Bury 22,200 Calderdale 22,342 Cambridge 20,147 Camden 27,945 Cannock Chase 9,403 Canterbury 14,513 Caradon 5,976 Cardiff 37,050 Carlisle 11,430 Carmarthen 4,328 Carrick 9,288 Castle Morpeth 4,298 Castle Point 10.189 Ceredigion 8,400 Charnwood 12,124 Chelmsford 12,221 Cheltenham 8,952 Cherwell 9,550 Chester 13,780 Chester le Street 6,603 Chesterfield 13,750 Chichester 7,100 Chiltern 7,780 Chorley 9,990 Christchurch 4,889 City of London 875 Cleethorpes 7,374 Colchester 20,380 Colwyn 7,856 Congleton 7,489 Copeland 6,704 Corby 7,254 Cotswold 5,429 Coventry 46,094 Craven 5,250 Crawley 6,991 327W
Authority Recipients Crewe and Nantwich 11,340 Croydon 26,100 Cynon Valley 8,947 Dacorum 11,535 Darlington 12,145 Dartford 5,740 Daventry 5,150 Delyn 7,236 Derby 32,500 Derwentside 15,350 Dinefwr 6,285 Doncaster 45,561 Dover 9,900 Dudley 39,017 Durham 11,616 Dwyfor 2,928 Ealing 28,298 Easington 15,338 East Cambridgeshire 5,067 East Devon 14,127 East Hampshire 5,608 East Hertfordshire 6,663 East Lindsey 13,452 East Northampton 6,635 East Staffordshire 9,810 East Yorkshire 8,368 Eastbourne 11,116 Eastleigh 6,924 Eden 2,635 Ellesmere Port 8,264 Elmbridge 6,448 Enfield 28,599 Epping Forest 9,184 Epsom and Ewell 4,460 Erewash 15,595 Exeter 9,932 Fareham 6,001 Fenland 8,290 Forest Heath 5,740 Forest of Dean 9,120 Fylde 6,603 Gateshead 33,792 Gedling 9,853 Gillingham 9,912 Glanford 6,628 Gloucester 8,794 Glyndwr 3,770 Gosport 6,450 Gravesham 9,377 Great Yarmouth 12,469 Greenwich 27,927 Grimsby 12,929 Guildford 8,750 Hackney 39,100 Halton 17,408 Hambleton 5,384 Hammersmith 22,341 Harborough 4,827 Haringey 33,213 Harlow 10,499 Harrogate 11,000 Harrow 15,700 Hart 2,770 Hartlepool 14,824 Hastings 11,330 Havant 11,790 Havering 23,200 Hereford 5,447 Hertsmere 7,550 High Peak 7,473 Hillingdon 20,300 Hinkley and Bosworth 7,533 Holderness 4,676 Horsham 7,069 Hounslow 22,353 Hove 11,925 Huntingdon 9,654 328W
Authority Recipients Hyndburn 8,817 Ipswich 16,800 Isles of Scilly 136 Islington 34,600 Islwyn 8,227 Kennet 3,966 Kensington and Chelsea 22,100 Kerrier 11,515 Kettering 10,100 Kingston-upon-Hull 46,956 Kingston-upon-Thames 12,291 Kingswood 7,732 Kirklees 48,000 Knowsley 39,244 Lambeth 59,289 Lancaster 26,342 Langbaurgh 23,200 Leeds 99,649 Leicester 47,150 Leominster 3,592 Lewes 9,600 Lewisham 34,523 Lichfield 7,615 Lincoln 10,955 Liverpool 98,800 Llanelli 9,478 Lliw Valley 7,739 Luton 19,352 Macclesfield 13,769 Maidstone 8,843 Maldon 4,326 Malvern Hills 9,240 Manchester 106,957 Mansfield 12,749 Medina 12,801 Meironnydd 4,970 Melton 4,095 Mendip 10,150 Merthyr Tydfil 9,144 Merton 16,630 Mid Bedfordshire 8,710 Mid Devon 5,620 Mid Suffolk 5,356 Mid Sussex 6,117 Middlesbrough 29,900 Milton Keynes 15,402 Mole Valley 4,514 Monmouth 5,330 Montgomery 3,980 Neath 8,214 New Forest 12,930 Newark 9,710 Newbury 7,271 Newcastle under Lyme 14,770 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 58,748 Newham 34,785 Newport 22,500 North Bedfordshire 13,520 North Cornwall 7,213 North Devon 8,150 North Dorset 3,640 North East Derby 10,770 North Hertfordshire 12,858 North Kesteven 6,141 North Norfolk 9,670 North Shropshire 5,435 North Tyneside 35,893 North Warwickshire 6,314 North West Leicester 7,374 North Wiltshire 8,120 Northampton 20,661 Northavon 8,650 Norwich 23,110 Nottingham 50,500 Nuneaton 14,185 Oadby and Wigston 4,540 Ogwr 14,622 329W
Authority Recipients Oldham 28,010 Oswestry 3,270 Oxford 27,200 Pendle 12,700 Penwith 10,040 Peterborough 19,600 Plymouth 27,570 Poole 12,500 Port Talbot 9,120 Portsmouth 29,450 Preseli 8,282 Preston 16,831 Purbeck 3,263 Radnor 2,420 Reading 15,300 Redbridge 18,354 Redditch 9,084 Reigate and Banstead 7,900 Restormel 10,215 Rhondda 10,094 Rhuddlan 8,659 Rhymney Valley 14,638 Ribble Valley 3,281 Richmond-upon-Thames 13,584 Richmondshire 3,176 Rochdale 35,812 Rochester on Medway 12,750 Rochford 6,049 Rossendale 10,005 Rother 8,705 Rotherham 32,900 Rugby 10,302 Runnymede 6,400 Rushcliffe 7,860 Rushmoor 5,890 Rutland 1,933 Rydale 9,000 Salford 45,188 Salisbury 6,208 Sandwell 62,720 Scarborough 10,698 Scunthorpe 10,550 Sedgefield 13,626 Sedgemoor 10,046 Sefton 41,200 Selby 6,566 Sevenoaks 6,065 Sheffield 87,859 Shepway 9,850 Shrewsbury and Atcham 8,109 Slough 9,430 Solihull 24,420 South Bedfordshire 8,894 South Bucks 3,980 South Cambridgeshire 7,080 South Derbyshire 6,385 South Hams 5,492 South Herefordshire 3,610 South Holland 7,791 South Kesteven 11,820 South Lakeland 8,699 South Norfolk 9,560 South Northampton 3,910 South Oxfordshire 10,530 South Pembrokeshire 4,355 South Ribble 9,455 South Shropshire 3,730 South Somerset 13,770 South Staffordshire 9,490 South Tyneside 30,140 South Wight 6,204 Southampton 32,800 Southend on Sea 20,718 Southwark 37,800 Spelthorne 6,800 St. Albans 9,250 St. Edmundsbury 6,548 330W
Authority Recipients St. Helens 27,676 Stafford 10,917 Staffs. Moorlands 8,202 Stevenage 7,892 Stockport 31,858 Stockton on Tees 39,337 Stoke on Trent 35,070 Stratford-on-Avon 11,650 Stroud 8,754 Suffolk Coastal 7,850 Sunderland 54,722 Surrey Heath 7,630 Sutton 14,568 Swale 11,102 Swansea 28,808 Taff-Ely 11,162 Tameside 37,745 Tamworth 8,477 Tandridge 4,521 Taunton Deane 8,367 Teesdale 2,366 Teignbridge 9,130 Tendring 18,090 Test Valley 6,170 Tewkesbury 6,500 Thamesdown 21,400 Thanet 16,739 The Wrekin 19,043 Three Rivers 6,449 Thurrock 14,477 Tonbridge and Mailing 6,429 Torbay 18,550 Torfaen 12,785 Torridge 4,646 Tower Hamlets 30,193 Trafford 24,300 Tunbridge Wells 6,056 Tynedale 5,073 Uttlesford 4,190 Vale of Glamorgan 10,615 Vale of White Horse 6,530 Vale Royal 12,003 Wakefield 45,197 Walsall 40,314 Waltham Forest 30,800 Wandsworth 29,100 Wansbeck 10,055 Wansdyke 6,480 Warrington 19,400 Warwick 10,912 Watford 6,893 Waveney 16,700 Waverley 8,244 Wealden 13,405 Wear Valley 9,575 Wellingborough 7,240 Welwyn Hatfield 10,485 West Derbyshire 5,558 West Devon 3,191 West Dorset 6,232 West Lancashire 15,065 West Lindsey 6,514 West Norfolk 13,280 West Oxfordshire 5,700 West Somerset 3,852 West Wiltshire 8,265 Westminster 25,700 Weymouth and Portland 6,740 Wigan 42,150 Wimborne 5,825 Winchester 6,518 Windsor and Maidenhead 8,501 Wirral 58,400 Woking 8,441 Wokingham 6,790 Wolverhampton 44,690 Woodspring 18,200
Authority Recipients Worcester 9,601 Worthing 11,859 Wrexham Maelor 14,206 Wychavon 7,991 Wycombe 11,287 Wyre 13,246 Wyre Forest 9,776 Ynys Môn 8,950 York 11,933 1 Derived from local authority housing benefit subsidy estimates for 1987–88.