Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in (a) the North West, (b) Merseyside, (c) Wirral and (d) Wallasey constituency his Department has written to on the change in support for mortgage interest from a benefit to a loan.

There were an estimated 16,000 SMI benefit claimants in the North West. The Department has written to all SMI benefit claimants on the change to a loan.

Estimates are not available at geographies smaller than Government Office Region on the number of claimants that the Department has written to on the changes to SMI.

Figure rounded to the nearest 1,000 cases.