Housing Benefit: Birkenhead

(asked on 2nd January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the social rented sector in Birkenhead constituency have been affected by the under-occupancy penalty; and what average change in housing benefit each such person has received.


Answered by
Mark Harper Portrait
Mark Harper
Secretary of State for Transport
This question was answered on 8th January 2015

The information requested, in respect of the number of Housing Benefit (HB) claimants affected by the under occupancy penalty and the average HB reduction amount, is published and available at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

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