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 and (b) Wallasey constituency were in receipt of support for mortgage interest in each year since 2010.

The table below gives the Department’s caseload estimates in the North West for Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) benefit claimants by financial year since 2010.

Table 1: Estimated SMI benefit caseload in the North West by calendar year

Estimates are not available at geographies smaller than Government Office Region.

Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000 cases.