§ Mr. Chris SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will update the figures given in his answer of 14 November 1995,Official Report, column 1018, for the amounts, at current prices, paid in (a) income support or its predecessor benefit and (b) housing benefit in each year since 1979, by region. [27846]
§ Mr. Roger Evans[holding answer 2 May 1996]: The available information is set out in the tables. 287W
Total housing benefit expenditure at current prices 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 London 760 830 866 894 922 964 1,086 1,275 South East 643 663 690 712 676 650 698 822 South West 290 305 319 340 329 314 330 395 East Anglia 126 130 139 148 142 136 142 166 East Midlands 285 296 307 315 308 299 306 321 West Midlands 469 502 522 529 513 497 507 531 Wales 238 263 278 289 276 280 292 305 Yorkshire and Humberside 401 440 470 490 482 471 488 486 North West 579 608 652 677 679 677 711 755 North 319 345 372 385 374 376 387 383 Scotland 437 474 520 591 644 635 698 702 Total expenditure 4,547 4,855 5,134 5,369 5,346 5,298 5,646 6,142 Notes:
1. Expenditure has been rounded to the nearest million. Due to rounding totals may not tally.
2. Cash values have been inflated by the GDP deflator at market prices so that the whole series time is expressed in 1996–97 prices.
Source:
Department of the Environment: statement of local authority housing revenue account and claimed entitlement to housing subsidies and grant. Welsh Office: statement of local authority housing revenue account and claimed entitlement to housing subsidies. Department of Social Security: summary of claim FD3D\13 (Scotland and new towns) and FD3D\132 England.
§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people received in-work benefits in each year since 1980. [29156]
Number2.3.4 in receipt of in-work benefits1 1980–95 (Great Britain) Family income supplement and family credit6 Housing benefit and rent rebate allowance5 Rates rebate8 Community charge benefit and council tax benefit8 Disability working allowance7 1980 88,000 n/a n/a — — 1981 115,000 n/a n/a — — 1982 146,000 n/a n/a — — 1983 190,000 n/a n/a — — 1984 204,000 n/a n/a — — 1985 201,000 n/a n/a — — 1986 202,000 n/a n/a — — 1987 221,000 n/a n/a — — 1988 213,000 256,000 301,000 — — 1989 303,000 219,000 8230,000 8100,000 — 1990 316,000 236,000 — 780,000 — 1991 347,000 255,000 — 518,000 — 1992 397,000 268,000 — 430,000 52 1993 489,000 288,000 — 321,000 2,793 1994 551,000 316,000 — 332,000 4,251 1995 608,000 n/a — n/a 6,039 Notes:
1 Means-tested in-work benefits are defined as family income supplement, family credit and disability working allowance, plus housing benefit, rent and rates rebate, community charge benefit and council tax benefit paid direct to people with earnings but who are not on income support/supplementary benefit. Earnings for this purpose have been defined as employed or self-employed earnings.
2 Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand except for disability working allowance, where exact figures are quoted.
3 Figures are for May of each year and refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple.
4 Figures include estimates due to the data collection procedure in Scotland.
5 Data on housing benefit and previous schemes providing financial assistance with domestic rents and rates cannot be broken down prior to 1988.
6 Family credit replaced family income supplement in April 1988.
7 Disability working allowance was introduced in April 1992.
8 Community charge benefit—CCB—replaced rate rebate in Scotland for 1989 and Great Britain from 1990. CCB figures for 1989 refer to Scotland only; rate rebate figures refer to England and Wales only. Council tax benefit replaced community charge benefit from April 1993. Figures for council tax benefit exclude second adult rebate cases.
Source:
Social Security statistics 1980 to 1990.
Family credit 5 per cent. sample of awards.
Disability working allowance 100 per cent. count of claims.
Housing benefit management information system annual 1 per cent. sample taken at the end of May of each year given—1990 to 1994.
Housing benefit management information system, 100 per cent. quarterly case load stock counts taken at the end of May for 1988 and 1989.
288W
§ Mr. Evans[holding answer 14 May 1996]: Such information as is available is set out in the table. Individuals may be in receipt of more than one benefit at the same time and figures for individual years cannot therefore be totalled.
289W