Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much housing benefit has been paid to affordable rent tenants in each year since the introduction of the affordable rent tenure in 2010.

The information requested is not available.

Limited information on Housing Benefit paid to Affordable Rent tenants of Local Authorities is available on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-expenditure-and-subsidy-data, but the large majority of Affordable Rent tenancies are with housing associations, and the Department does not hold data which allows the expenditure on these tenancies to be identified.