Housing Benefit: Solihull
(asked on 24th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding from the Housing Benefit subsidy his Department has provided to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in each of the last five years.
Housing Benefit Subsidy provides funding for Local Authorities payment of Housing Benefit to citizens. Administration Subsidy is additional subsidy provided as a contribution to costs of administering Housing Benefit and includes additional subsidy for initiatives to reduce fraud and error.
In the last five financial years, the Department for Work & Pensions has provided the following Housing Benefit Subsidy to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.
| 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Housing Benefit Subsidy | £44,185,481 | £38,496,991 | £36,662,102 | £34,061,670 | £32,425,208 |
Administration Subsidy | £586,962 | £535,131 | £541,496 | £513,412 | £536,326 |
Total | £44,772,443 | £39,032,122 | £37,203,598 | £34,575,082 | £32,961,534 |