Council Tax Benefits

(asked on 23rd June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) East Midlands and (d) the UK received council tax benefit in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Steve Webb
This question was answered on 26th June 2014

Most of the information requested is published and available for each month from November 2008 to February 2013 and can be found in Table 10 of the publication at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-caseload-statistics-published-from-november-2008-to-present

Council Tax Benefit (CTB) was replaced in April 2013 by the Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme and in England the Department for Communities and Local Government is now responsible for these statistics. The Scottish and Welsh Governments have similar responsibility.

Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics and can be found at:

http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm

The information requested for Ashfield Parliamentary Constituency is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

However a Parliamentary Constituency breakdown for CTB was produced as a one-off exercise for January 2011 and this is published at:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107093842/http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/hb_ctb_parlc_jan11.xls

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