Local Housing Allowance: Wales
(asked on 7th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the average difference between the rent being paid by individuals in receipt of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and the LHA rate in each local authority in Wales in the most recent period for which data is available.
As of August 2022, the average monthly difference between the contractual rent for individuals in receipt of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and the LHA rate in each Welsh local authority is as below, figures are rounded to the nearest £1:
Local Authority | Average Difference between rent and LHA rate |
Blaenau Gwent | £87 |
Bridgend | £61 |
Caerphilly | £82 |
Cardiff | £9 |
Carmarthenshire | £67 |
Ceredigion | £54 |
Conwy | £78 |
Denbighshire | £70 |
Flintshire | £55 |
Gwynedd | £72 |
Isle of Anglesey | £54 |
Merthyr Tydfil | £66 |
Monmouthshire | £98 |
Neath Port Talbot | £74 |
Newport | £61 |
Pembrokeshire | £77 |
Powys | £86 |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | £68 |
Swansea | £30 |
Torfaen | £62 |
Vale of Glamorgan | £84 |
Wrexham | £48 |
Shared Accommodation Rate (SAR) cases have been excluded due to data quality issues. Average difference figures include both households where the rent paid by individuals is lower than the LHA and households where the rent paid by individuals is higher than the LHA. Positive values relate to where monthly rent is higher than the monthly LHA rate on average in a local authority.