§ Mr. RooneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many applications have been made for extended payments of housing benefit and council tax benefit; and how many of these have been successful in each standard region broken down to show(a) the numbers of registered unemployed, (b) those in receipt of a training allowance, (c) lone parents, (d) carers and (e) the duration of benefit claim. [15104]
§ Mr. Roger EvansThe information is not available in the formal requested.
However, information on the number of applications for extended payments of housing and council tax benefits and the number successful are being processed and will be published in the "Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Summary Statistics—Update Number 2" in March. A copy will be placed in the Library.
Information broken down by client group will become available in late 1998.