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Written Question
Housing Benefit: Staffordshire
Tuesday 8th July 2014

Asked by: Aidan Burley (Conservative - Cannock Chase)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on housing benefit in (a) Cannock Chase and (b) Staffordshire in each of the last five years.

Answered by Steve Webb

The information requested is shown in the tables below.

Further benefit expenditure can be found at the following URL:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables

Housing Benefit expenditure, £ million, nominal

2008/09

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

Cannock Chase

19.1

23.4

25.5

27.0

28.0

Staffordshire

132.5

159.5

171.5

181.8

192.1

Source: Local Authority subsidy returns.

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