Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people living in social tenancies are subject to the removal of the spare room subsidy in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) England, (c) the East Midlands and (d) Nottingham North constituency.
The numbers of households with Housing Benefit (HB) deductions due to the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (RSRS) by the geographies requested as of May 2016 are shown in the table below. These figures are also expressed as proportions of:
- all Social Rented Sector households;
- all households claiming HB;
- all Social Rented Sector households claiming HB.
| Households with an RSRS deduction | |||
Total | Proportion of all Social Rented Sector households | Proportion of all households claiming HB | Proportion of all Social Rented Sector households claiming HB. | |
Great Britain | 432,360 | 9% | 9% | 13% |
England | 331,760 | 8% | 8% | 12% |
East Midlands | 29,050 | 9% | 10% | 14% |
Nottingham UA | 4,250 | 12% | 12% | 17% |
Nottingham North | 2,060 | - | 15% | 19% |