HC Deb 24 April 2002 vol 384 c346W
Ms Oona King

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his answer of 12 March 2002,Official Report, column 957W, on housing benefit, what information his Department holds on the numbers of housing benefit claimants who have had their entitlement restricted as a result of (a) local reference rent determinations and (b) single room rent determinations. [45834]

Malcolm Wicks

The number of housing benefit recipients nationally who have had their entitlement restricted as a result of local reference rent (LRR) determinations and single room rent (SRR) determinations is collected in both the annual 1 per cent. sample and the quarterly 100 per cent. case load counts. This information is published in the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Annual Summary Statistics and the Quarterly Summary Statistics, copies of which are available in the Library.