War Pensions (Hansard, 4 July 1994)

§ Mr. Hague

Local authorities have the discretion to disregard up to the full amount of war widows' pensions and war disablement pensions when assessing entitlement to housing benefit and council tax benefit.

The information requested with regard to housing benefit has been compiled from the latest information from local authorities for the financial year 1990–91 and is listed in the table. No details are available for council tax benefit.

Local authorities operating a local scheme in housing benefit to disregard an amount of war disablement or war widow's pension in addition to the £10 statutory disregard.

Aberconwy
Aberdeen
Adur
Amber Valley
Angus
Annandale and Eskdale
Arfon
Argyll-Bute
Arun
Ashfield
Ashford
Aylesbury Vale
Badenoch
Banff and Buchan
Barking
Barnet
Basingstoke
Bassetlaw
Bath¹
Bearsden and Milngavie
Berwickshire
Beverley
Birmingham
Blaby¹
Blackburn
Blackpool
Blaenau Gwent
Bolton¹
Boston
Bournemouth
Bracknell
Bradford
Braintree
Breckland
Brent
Brentwood
Brighton
Broadland
Bromley¹
Bromsgrove
Broxbourne
Broxtowe
Burnley
Bury¹
Caithness
Calderdale
Cambridge¹
Camden
Cannock Chase
Canterbury
Cardiff
Carlisle
Carrick
Castle Morpeth²
Castle Point
Ceredigion
Charnwood
Chelmsford
Cheltenham
Cherwell
Chester²
Chesterfield
Chichester
Chiltern
Chorley
Christchurch
Clackmannan
Clydebank
Clydesdale
Colchester
Colwyn
Congleton
Copeland
Corby¹
Cotswold
Coventry
Craven
Crawley
Crewe and Nantwich
Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld (DC)
Cumnock and Doon
Cunninghame
Dacorum
Darlington¹
Dartford
Daventry
Delyn
Derby¹
Derbyshire Dales
Doncaster¹
Dover
Dudley
Dumbarton
Dundee
Dunfermline
Dwyfor
Ealing
East Cambridgeshire
East Devon
East Dorset
East Hampshire
East Hertfordshire
East Kilbride
East Kilbride (DC)
East Lothian
East Staffordshire¹
East Yorkshire
Eastleigh
Eastwood
Eden
Edinburgh
Ellesmere Port
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Epsom and Ewell
Erewash
Ettrick and Lauderdale
Exeter¹
Falkirk
Fareham
Fenland
Forest Heath
Forest of Dean
Gedling
Gillingham
Glanford
Glasgow
Glenrothes (DC)
Gloucester
Glyndwr
Gordon
Gosport
Great Yarmouth
Grimsby¹
Guildford
Hackney
Halton
Hambleton¹
Hamilton
Hammersmith
Harborough
Haringey
Harlow
Harrow
Hart
Hartlepool
Hastings
Havant
Havering¹
Hereford
Hertsmere
High Peak
Hillingdon
Hinckley and Bosworth
Holderness
Horsham
Hounslow
Hove
Huntingdon
Hyndburn
Inverclyde
Inverness
Ipswich
Irvine (DC)
Isles of Scilly
Islington
Islwyn
Kennet
Kilmarnock
Kincardine and Deeside
Kingston-upon-Thames
Kingswood
Kirkcaldy
Kirklees
Knowsley
Kyle and Carrick
Lambeth
Lancaster
Langbaurgh
Leicester
Lewes
Lewisham
Lichfield
Lincoln
Liverpool
Livingston (DC)
Llanelli
Lliw Valley
Lochaber
Luton
Macclesfield
Maidstone
Maldon
Malvern Hills
Mansfield
Medina
Meirionnydd
Melton
Mendip
Merton
Mid Bedfordshire
Mid Suffolk
Mid Sussex
Middlesbrough¹
Midlothian
Milton Keynes
Mole Valley
Monklands
Monmouth
Montgomery
Moray
Motherwell
Nairn
Neath
New Forest
Newark
Newbury
Newcastle under Lyme
Newham
Newport¹
Nithsdale
North Bedfordshire
North Cornwall
North Dorset
North East Derby
North East Fife
North Hertfordshire
North Kesteven
North Shropshire
North Tyneside
North Warwickshire
North West Leicester
North Wiltshire
Northampton
Northavon
Nottingham
Nuneaton
Oadby and Wigston
OGWR
Oldham¹
Orkney
Penwith³
Perth & Kinross
Peterborough
Plymouth
Poole
Portsmouth
Preseli
Preston
Purbeck
Radnor
Reading
Redbridge
Redditch
Reigate and Banstead
Renfrew
Rhondda
Rhuddlan
Ribble Valley
Richmond-upon-Thames
Richmondshire
Rochdale
Rochester on Medway
Rochford
Ross and Cromarty
Rossendale
Rother
Roxburgh
Rugby
Runnymede
Rushcliffe
Rushmoor
Rutland
Ryedale
Salford
Salisbury
Sandwell
Scarborough
Scottish Homes
Scunthorpe
Sedgefield
Sefton
Selby
Sevenoaks
Shepway
Shetland
Skye and Lochalsh
Slough
Solihull
South Bedfordshire
South Bucks
South Cambridgeshire
South Derbyshire
South Herefordshire
South Holland
South Lakeland
South Norfolk
South Northants
South Oxfordshire
South Pembrokeshire
South Ribble
South Shropshire
South Somerset
South Staffordshire
South Tyneside
South Wight
Southampton
Southend on Sea
Southwark
Spelthorne
St. Albans
St. Helens
Staffs. Moorlands
Stevenage¹
Stewartry
Stirling
Stockport
Stockton on Tees¹
Stoke on Trent
Stratford-on-Avon
Strathkelvin
Stroud
Suffolk Coastal
Surrey Heath
Sutherland
Sutton
Swale
Swansea
Tameside
Tamworth
Tandridge
Teignbridge
Tendring
Test Valley
Tewkesbury
Thamesdown¹
Thanet
The Wrekin
Three Rivers
Thurrock
Tonbridge and Mailing¹
Torbay¹
Torfaen¹
Tower Hamlets
Trafford
Tunbridge Wells¹
Tweeddale
Vale of Glamorgan
Vale of White Horse
Vale Royal
Wakefield
Walsall
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Wansbeck
Wansdyke
Watford
Waverley
Wealden
Welwyn Hatfield
West Lothian
West Norfolk
West Oxfordshire
West Wiltshire
Western Isles
Westminster
Wigan
Wigtown
Winchester
Windsor and Maidenhead
Wirral
Woking
Wokingham
Wolverhampton
Woodspring
Worcester
Worthing
Wycombe
York¹

¹Denotes those authorities who operate a scheme to disregard War Disablement Pensions only.²Denotes those authorities who operate a scheme to disregard War Widows' Pensions only.³Denotes an authority which operates a scheme to disregard War Disablement Pensions and War Widows' Pensions for Housing Benefit rent rebates only.