Support for Mortgage Interest: South East

(asked on 2nd February 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Peter Kyle Portrait
Peter Kyle
(Labour - Hove)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Hove constituency, (b) East Sussex, (c) the South East receive Support for Mortgage Interest; and how many of those people receive (i) employment support allowance, (ii) personal independence payments and (iii) jobseeker’s allowance.

Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 7th February 2018

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

All SMI

SMI and Employment and Support Allowance

SMI and Job Seeker’s Allowance

South East

11,000

5,000

-

Table 1: SMI caseload by benefit in one selected geography

Data is not available on:

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

Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000 cases.

‘-’ denotes under 500 cases.

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