Support for Mortgage Interest

(asked on 21st December 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Diana Johnson Portrait
Diana Johnson
(Labour - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Hull, (b) Yorkshire and Humber and (c) the UK receive Support for Mortgage Interest, and how many of those people receive (i) Employment Support Allowance, (ii) Personal Independence Payment and (iii) Jobseekers’ Allowance.

Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 8th January 2018

The table below gives the Department’s estimates of the caseload of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) split by benefit and selected geographies.

All SMI

SMI and Employment and Support Allowance

SMI and Job Seeker’s Allowance

Great Britain

110,000

49,000

2,000

Yorkshire and Humberside

9,000

4,000

-

Table 1: SMI caseload by benefit across selected geographies

Data is not available on:

  • the number of SMI claimants in receipt of Personal Independence Payment;
  • the number of claimants of SMI in Hull and geographies smaller than Government Office Region.

The Department does not hold data on SMI in respect of Northern Ireland.

Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000 cases.

‘-’ denotes under 500 cases.

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