HC Deb 20 December 1995 vol 268 cc1273-4W
Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list each local authority in England which achieved(a) less than 50 per cent. and (b) between 50 per cent. and 60 per cent. of its target level of weekly benefit savings resulting from the detection of housing benefit fraud in the last available year; and if he will list the actual percentage achieved by each local authority which achieved less than 50 per cent. of its target. [7147]

Mr. Roger Evans

The information for the latest available year, 1994–95, is set out in the table.

Local authority Percentage of weekly benefit savings threshold achieved
Between 50 per cent. and 60 per cent. of threshold achieved
Chiltern 58
Blyth Valley 58
Tower Hamlets 57
Bromley 56
Thamesdown 53
North Wiltshire 53
Coventry 52
Sutton 51
Colchester 51
Wirral 51
Kirklees 50
Kingston Upon Hull 50
Bexley 50
Less than 50 per cent. of threshold achieved
Hart 45
Sedgefield 38
Knowsley 30
Rutland 27
Wansbeck 24

Local authority Percentage of weekly benefit savings threshold achieved
Nuneaton 20
Congleton 18
North-West Leicester 8
Isles of Scilly 0
South Bedfordshire 0
Teesdale 0