Housing Benefit (Walthamstow)

HC Deb 17 January 1996 vol 269 c659W

Mr. Gerrard

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the number of households in Walthamstow in receipt of housing benefit. [8980]

Mr. Roger Evans

Information is not available in the format requested.

At 31 May 1995, there were 24,100¹ recipients of housing benefit in the London borough of Waltham Forest².

Notes:

¹The number of recipients relates to benefit units which may be a single person or couple.

² Walthamstow is part of the London borough of Waltham Forest.