Housing Benefit: Greater London

(asked on 16th July 2014) - View Source
Questioner
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Sadiq Khan
(Labour - Tooting)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total expenditure on housing benefit in London was in each year since 2010.

Answered by
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Steve Webb
This question was answered on 21st July 2014

The information requested is shown in the table below.

Total Housing Benefit expenditure in Greater London

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

£ million, nominal

5,539

5,890

6,081

£ million, 2014/15 prices

5,961

6,198

6,327

Source: Local Authority subsidy returns

Notes:

1. Benefit expenditure is available for financial years only.

2. The last period for which a full year of expenditure is available is 2012/13. Figures for 2013/14 will be published later in the year.

3. Figures at 2014/15 prices are deflated using GDP deflators published following the 2014 Budget, and published at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/299805/GDP_Deflators_Qtrly_National_Accounts_March_2014_update.xls

4. Expenditure data shown here for 2012/13 may differ slightly from published expenditure information due to more up to date local authority data received after the data had been published.

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