§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how much money has been spent in total on housing benefit in Scotland for private sector tenancies in each year since 1985;
(2) how much has been spent on housing benefit in Scotland in each financial year since 1985.
§ Mr. Roger EvansThe information is set out in the table.800W
£ thousands Year Total Private Sector Housing Benefit Total Housing Benefit 1985–86 53,693 270,098 1986–87 69,260 317,889 1987–88 85,903 367,005 1988–891 81,968 380,405 1989–901 103,567 434,152 1990–91 109,257 489,784 1991–92 123,753 535,526 1992–93 154,617 607,954 Note
1 Amounts estimated as the data was not collected in the required format for these two years.
All Figures have been rounded to the nearest £,000.
Source
Final subsidy claims.
§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much money was spent on housing benefit in each district council in Scotland in the last financial year.
§ Mr. Roger EvansThe available information is set out in the table. 801W
District Total Housing Benefit (£,000) Berwickshire 1.422 Ettrick and Lauderdale 2,144 Roxburgh 3,619 Tweeddale 1,036 Clackmannan 4,823 Falkirk 13,492 Stirling 7,646 Annandale and Eskdale 2,792 Nithsdale 4,814 Stewartry 1,698 Wigtown 4,149 Dunfermline 11,761 Kirkcaldy 17,800 North East Fife 4,462 Aberdeen 14,984 Banff and Buchan 5,549 Gordon 2,935 Kincardine and Deeside 1,492 Moray 5,505 Badenoch 998 Caithness 2,203 Inverness 5,518 Lochaber 1,665 Nairn 829 Ross and Cromarty 4,754 Skye and Lochalsh 1,067 Sutherland 1,138 Edinburgh 67,641 East Lothian 7,688 Midlothian 4,341 West Lothian 9,242 Argyll-Bute 7,290 Bearsden and Milngavie 1,207 Clydebank 7,666 Clydesdale 4,287 Cumbernauld 3,381 Cumnock and Doon 5,020 Cunninghame 14,410 Dumbarton 8,844 East Kilbride 1,580 Eastwood 1,455 Glasgow 178,875 Hamilton 11,825 Inverclyde 12,739 Kilmarnock 8,131 Kyle and Carrick 10,926 Monklands 14,127 Motherwell 16,710 Renfrew 23,397 Strathkelvin 5,245 Angus 5,877 Dundee 32,078 Perth and Kinross 8,837 Islands Orkney 1,165 Shetland 1,275 Western Isles 2,399 All figures rounded to the nearest £,000.
Source: Final subsidy claims.
Information relates to 1992–93 year.
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Housing Benefit Subsidy 1992–93 Source: MPF720B (Certified) Districts Housing Benefit Subsidy Berwickshire 1,422,031 Ettrick and Lauderdale 2,144,030 Roxburgh 3,618,630 Tweeddale 1,035,930 Clackmannan 4,822,713 Falkirk 13,492,425
Housing Benefit Subsidy 1992–93 Source: MPF720B (Certified) Districts Housing Benefit Subsidy Stirling 7,646,014 Annandale and Eskdale 2,791,643 Nithsdale 4,814,403 Stewartry 1,697,878 Wigtown 4,148,971 Dunfermline 11,761,442 Kirkcaldy 17,800,067 North East Fife 4,462,196 Aberdeen 14,984,313 Banff and Buchan 5,548,947 Gordon 2,934,543 Kincardine and Deeside 1,492,313 Moray 5,504,803 Badenoch 997,785 Caithness 2,202,847 Inverness 5,518,241 Lochaber 1,664,894 Nairn 828,642 Ross and Cromarty 4,753,973 Skye and Lochalsh 1,066,843 Sutherland 1,138,487 Edinburgh 67,640,909 East Lothian 7,688,208 Midlothian 4,341,099 West Lothian 9,242,218 Argyll-Bute 7,289,821 Bearsden and Milngavie 1,206,648 Clydebank 7,666,228 Clydesdale 4,287,072 Cumbernauld 3,381,167 Cumnock and Doon 5,019,841 Cunninghame 14,409,820 Dumbarton 8,844,003 East Kilbride 1,579,816 Eastwood 1,455,284 Glasgow 178,875,469 Hamilton 11,825,268 Inverclyde 12,738,576 Kilmarnock 8,131,272 Kyle and Carrick 10,926,069 Monklands 14,127,309 Motherwell 16,709,628 Renfrew 23,397,271 Strathkelvin 5,245,087 Angus 5,877,088 Dundee 32,077,629 Perth and Kinross 8,837,355 603,115,159 Islands Orkney 1,164,576 Shetland 1,275,119 Western Isles 2,398,951 4,838,646
§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what were the highest values of rent eligible for housing benefit in(a) the private sector and (b) the public sector, in each financial year since 1985.
§ Mr. Roger EvansThe available information for Scotland is set out in the table. It gives the maximum eligible rent and the 99th percentile eligible rent for the years for which the information could be extracted.
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Enquiry date Public sector tenancies Maximum eligible rent £ Private sector tenancies 99th percentile eligible rent £ Maximum eligible rent £ 99th percentile eligible rent £ May 1989 46.42 27.02 87.94 51.50 May 1990 107.97 32.72 96.92 80.77 May 1991 124.45 39.81 105.00 81.89 May 1992 250.37 42.64 115.38 95.00 May 1993 170.2 43.63 150.00 98.08 Source:
Housing Benefit Management Information System annual one per cent. inquiries.
Note:
1 As the figures are from a one per cent. sample of recipients of Housing Benefit, the maximum quoted above may not be the actual maximum eligible rent.
2 The 99th percentile eligible rent (that is, the eligible rent which represents the boundary between the top one per cent of eligible rents and all other eligible rents) has been quoted as a more reliable indicator of the highest values.
3 The private sector includes Housing Association tenancies.
§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many housing benefit claims have been awarded for each district council area in Scotland in each year since 1985.
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Average Housing Benefit Caseload for each District in Scotland 1988–1993 Average Housing Benefit Caseload District 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Aberdeen 16,758 17,615 17,806 16,584 16,046 16,163 Angus 6,959 6,860 6,739 6,537 6,562 6,736 Annandale and Eskdale 3,552 2,759 2,356 2,373 2,412 2,515 Argyll-Bute 5,064 4,655 4,698 5,094 5,115 5,414 Badenoch 863 715 651 667 734 780 Banff and Buchan 5,525 5,568 5,499 5,379 5,318 5,468 Bearsden and Milngavie 1,047 1,018 942 901 900 917 Berwickshire 508 1,350 1,310 1,287 1,298 1,346 Caithness 2,106 1,936 1,929 1,901 1,940 2,010 Clackmannan 4,846 7,320 7,110 7,019 6,872 6,570 Clydebank 7,308 6,948 6,871 6,692 6,625 6,709 Clydesdale 4,534 4,336 4,266 4,278 4,420 4,474 Cumbernauld 2,260 2,313 2,338 2,494 2,591 2,711 Cumnock and Doon 5,142 4,937 4,871 4,895 5,130 5,358 Cunninghame 15,019 13,266 12,317 12,398 12,904 13,358 Dumbarton 7,256 7,116 6,998 6,879 6,697 7,232 Dundee 24,289 23,372 23,600 23,108 22,741 23,043 Dunfermline 10,579 10,694 10,363 10,488 10,701 10,936 East Kilbride 880 861 922 963 1,062 1,151 East Lothian 8,018 7,667 7,072 7,005 6,978 6,983 Eastwood 1,109 1,079 1,033 1,014 1,119 1,198 Edinburgh 48,640 45,318 42,869 40,000 39,934 41,203 Ettrick and Lauderdale 607 2,102 1,984 1,786 2,139 2,231 Falkirk 14,899 14,951 14,498 14,273 14,150 14,306 Glasgow 122,020 121,430 124,966 122,018 123,314 122,577 Gordon 1,866 2,655 2,501 2,282 2,578 2,644 Hamilton 11,969 11,659 11,278 11,168 11,133 11,297 Inverclyde 15,502 11,978 11,899 11,205 11,018 11,312 Inverness 5,167 6,099 6,235 6,002 5,248 4,353 Kilmarnock 9,744 9,380 9,052 9,015 8,746 8,709 Kincardine and Deeside 1,266 1,405 1,463 1,439 1,490 1,595 Kirkcaldy 13,876 13,841 13,833 13,584 14,141 14,500 Kyle and Carrick 10,582 10,146 9,849 9,664 9,443 9,783 Lochaber 2,069 1,686 1,442 1,380 1,349 1,572 Midlothian 6,176 5,815 5,190 4,928 5,721 4,931 Monklands 15,804 14,935 14,184 14,240 12,879 13,283 Moray 5,718 5,616 5,413 5,236 6,725 5,401 Motherwell 20,336 18,629 17,916 17,782 15,813 18,305 Nairn 806 785 680 638 1,058 748 Nithsdale 5,150 4,269 3,959 3,860 4,120 4,321 North East Fife 4,446 4,247 4,091 3,556 3,330 3,747 Orkney Isles 1,269 996 829 844 1,730 919 Perth and Kinross 7,964 7,850 7,758 7,698 9,346 7,998 Renfrew 21,959 20,294 18,553 19,877 17,949 20,945
§ Mr. Roger EvansThe available information is set out in the table.
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Average Housing Benefit Caseload for each District in Scotland 1988–1993 Average Housing Benefit Caseload District 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Ross and Cromarty 3,648 3,540 3,396 3,455 3,598 4,039 Roxburgh 827 2,863 2,742 2,705 2,697 3,113 Shetland Isles 1,501 1,020 967 963 962 1,043 Skye and Lochalsh 1,063 1,165 1,388 678 822 753 Stewartry 2,174 1,504 1,317 1,343 1,892 1,410 Stirling 8,240 7,487 6,442 6,334 5,795 6,666 Strathkelvin 5,383 4,887 4,617 4,363 4,290 4,341 Sutherland 973 942 947 947 926 981 Tweeddale 156 737 919 892 933 953 West Lothian 10,317 9,802 9,344 9,560 9,368 9,440 Western Isles 4,405 1,786 1,143 1,198 1,551 1,568 Wigtown 3,930 3,182 3,042 2,899 3,084 3,170 Source
Housing Benefit Management Information SystemNotes
- (1) The above figures are benefit units. A benefit unit may be a single person or a couple.
- (2) The average caseload is based on 100 per cent. enquiries taken at the end of February, May, August and November of each year.
- (3) When the Local Authorities have failed to send in a return, figures have been estimated.
- (4) Prior to April 1989 the average caseload includes rate rebate cases.
§ Mr. RaynsfordTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the total cost and number of recipients of housing benefit in the current year; and what were the equivalent figures for 1982.
Great Britain Housing Benefit only Housing Benefit plus an estimate for the number of people on Supplementary Benefit who get help with housing costs Spending £ (millions) Caseload (thousands) Spending £ (millions) Caseload (thousands) 1982–831 Rent rebate 929 3,050 1,777 3,580 Rent allowance 74 260 351 851 1994–952 Rent rebate 5,659 3,186 — — Rent allowance 4,320 1,432 — — Note
1982–83 caseload and expenditure figures include estimates for people whose Supplementary Benefit payments included help with their housing costs.
1 Information taken from Public Expenditure papers.
2 "Government's Expenditure Plans 1994–95 to 1996–97". Caseload information extrapolated from figures in same report.