Housing Benefit Overpayments (Hansard, 16 July 1998)

§ Mr. Keith Bradley

The information available is set out in the table.

Overpayments of Housing Benefit Expenditure, Scotland—1996–97
	Housing benefit expenditure £	DSS/DfEE error		Local authority error		All other overpayments (including fraud)
	(a)	Numbers	(b) Amount £	(b)as a percentage of (a)	Numbers	(c) Amount £	(c) as a percentage of (a)	Numbers	(d) Amount £	(d)as a percentage of (a)
Aberdeen	23,923,000	12	1,071	²—	111	6,885	²—	5,271	1,008,285	4.2
Aberdeenshire¹	16,229,000	4	2,180	²—	112	183,990	1.1	1,031	382,753	2.4
Angus	10,410,000	5	1,247	²—	11	1,345	²—	164	99,439	0.9
Argyllbute	13,120,000	23	3,265	²—	1	151	²—	1,576	389,837	2.9
Clackmannanshire	6,975,000	0	0	n/a	100	1.180	²—	1,540	211,121	3.0
Dumfries Galloway	21,479,000	17	2,326	²—	59	4,073	²—	2,620	483,680	2.2
Dundee	42,262,000	0	0	n/a	3	1,419	²—	4,968	1,174,883	2.8
East Ayrshire¹	18,531,000	5	1,289	²—	70	9,721	²—	2,252	364,728	2.0
East Dunbartonshire	7,670,000	3	302	²—	16	2,329	²—	549	125,239	1.6
East Lothian	12,222,000	0	0	n/a	56	8,476	²—	1,100	258,682	2.1
East Renfrewshire¹	6,204,000	13	584	²—	35	6,920	0.1	182	70,394	1.1
Edinburgh¹	98,891,000	0	0	²—	10	1,114	²—	25,282	3,030,866	3.0
Falkirk¹	19,361,000	0	0	²—	5,414	189,433	1.0	7,990	719,999	3.7
Fife	51,687,000	0	0	²—	88	24,967	²—	11,768	1,314,306	2.5
Glasgow	238,035,000	0	0	²—	369	112,659	²—	29,664	9,455,184	3.0
Highland¹	29,074,000	2	561	²—	22	4,624	²—	4,902	749,955	2.6
Inverclyde	17,528,000	0	0	n/a	33	7,507	²—	1,025	220,332	1.3
Midlothian	8,957,000	5	3,104	²—	519	52,670	0.6	1,481	353,626	3.9
Moray	8,799,000	1	117	²—	498	28,019	0.3	2,961	383,055	4.3
North Ayrshire¹	22,770,000	6	307	²—	3	1,503	²—	1,938	318,969	1.4
North Lanarkshire¹	56,676,000	11	2,647	²—	965	76,804	0.1	12,892	1,146,921	2.0
Orkney	1,948,000	0	0	n/a	73	1,850	²—	255	69,957	3.6
Perth and Kinross	13,743,000	1	408	²—	16	3,562	²—	580	429,565	3.1
Renfrewshire	30,324,000	11	1,897	²—	178	7,530	²—	2,743	480,507	1.6
Scottish Borders	11,704,000	3	378	²—	0	0	n/a	1,310	351,937	3.0
Shetland	1,815,000	1	106	²—	4	682	²—	1,552	80,869	4.5
South Ayrshire	18,264,000	10	337	²—	176	22,415	0.1	493	226,727	1.2
South Lanarkshire¹	48,608.000	0	0	n/a	312	8,870	²—	7,824	582,942	1.2
Stirling	12,104,000	0	0	n/a	17	1,345	²—	2,733	394,626	3.3
West Dunbartonshire	19,891,000	2	316	²—	345	8,023	²—	2,539	415,667	2.1
West Lothian	19,675,000	0	0	n/a	23	51,130	0.3	2,826	447,431	2.3
Western Isles	3,160,000	0	0	n/a	117	3,458	0.1	595	75,558	2.4
¹Non audited returms
²Percentage less than 0.1

Note:

n/a = Not applicable

Source:

DSS Planning and Finance Division