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Written Question
Housing Benefit: Expenditure
Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Asked by: Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative - Thurrock)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much from the public purse has been spent on housing benefit in each year since 2010.

Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)

The information requested is available in the benefit expenditure and caseload tables produced by the department. The latest tables produced at Spring Budget 2023 can be found here.

Total housing benefit expenditure can be found on rows 4 and 66 of the housing benefits tab.

The number of households in receipt of housing benefit can be found on row 127 of the housing benefits tab.


Written Question
Housing Benefit
Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Asked by: Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative - Thurrock)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households were in receipt of housing benefit in each year since 2010.

Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)

The information requested is available in the benefit expenditure and caseload tables produced by the department. The latest tables produced at Spring Budget 2023 can be found here.

Total housing benefit expenditure can be found on rows 4 and 66 of the housing benefits tab.

The number of households in receipt of housing benefit can be found on row 127 of the housing benefits tab.


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