Housing Benefit

HC Deb 01 July 1999 vol 334 cc242-3W

Mr. Campbell-Savours

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the cost to Housing Benefit relating to(a) Local Authority rents, (b) Housing Association rents and (c) private sector rents for the last year for which statistics are available. [88819]

Angela Eagle

The information requested is in the table.

Housing Benefit expenditure in Great Britain: 1997–98
	£ million, Cash
Local Authority tenants	5,493
Registered Social Landlord tenants (Previously Housing Association tenants)	2,211
Private Rented Sector tenants	3,480
Total Housing Benefit	11,184

Note:

'Rents' have been interpreted as referring to 'tenants'

Source:

1997–98 Housing Benefit Subsidy claim forms from Local Authorities, together with information from the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System one per cent. samples for May 1997 and May 1998. The figures vary slightly from those in the Departmental Report because more recent Local Authorities' data have been incorporated in these figures.