§ Mr. CrausbyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security which local authorities disregard war pensions but not war widows' pensions when assessing entitlement to housing benefit or council tax rebates. [111580]
§ Angela EagleThe information is not available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
We do not routinely collect this sort of information on discretionary local schemes for Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit as such schemes are funded from an authority's own resources.