Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
(asked on 10th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in council and housing association properties in each local authority in Lancashire have been subject to the underoccupancy penalty since its introduction.
Housing Benefit recipients affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy in each Local Authority in Lancashire: as at November 2014 | |||||
Local Authority |
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Burnley |
| 578 |
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Chorley |
| 645 |
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Fylde |
| 200 |
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Hyndburn |
| 400 |
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Lancaster |
| 561 |
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Pendle |
| 421 |
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Preston |
| 1,238 |
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Ribble Valley |
| 110 |
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Rossendale |
| 332 |
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South Ribble |
| 445 |
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West Lancashire |
| 988 |
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Wyre |
| 424 |
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Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE), via Stat-Xplore
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1. This data is point in time for those HB claimants as at the second Thursday in November 2014, which is the latest available. A cumulative figure is therefore not available. |
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2. Cells in this table have had statistical disclosure control applied to avoid the release of confidential data. | |||||
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