Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households in each local authority area in London whose weekly income will be reduced by (a) under £20, (b) between £21 and £39.99, (c) between £40 and £59.99, (d) between £60 and £79.99, (e) between £80 and £99.99 and (d) over £100 as a result of the introduction of the lower benefit cap.
The information requested is in table 1 below.
Table 1: Average weekly reduction in Housing Benefit due to introduction of the lower benefit cap, 2016/17
| Under £20 | between £20 and £39.99 | between £40 and £59.99 | Over £60 | Total |
Barking and Dagenham | 100 | 100 | 300 | - | 500 |
Barnet | 200 | 300 | 300 | - | 800 |
Bexley | - | 100 | 200 | - | 300 |
Brent | 300 | 500 | 700 | - | 1500 |
Bromley | - | - | 200 | - | 200 |
Camden | 100 | 200 | 200 | - | 600 |
City of London | - | - | - | - | - |
Croydon | 100 | 100 | 500 | - | 700 |
Ealing | 400 | 300 | 700 | - | 1300 |
Enfield | 200 | 400 | 600 | - | 1200 |
Greenwich | 100 | 100 | 200 | - | 400 |
Hackney | 300 | 500 | 400 | - | 1200 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 200 | 100 | 200 | - | 500 |
Haringey | 200 | 300 | 400 | - | 800 |
Harrow | 100 | 100 | 200 | - | 300 |
Havering | 100 | 100 | 200 | - | 300 |
Hillingdon | 200 | 100 | 200 | - | 500 |
Hounslow | 100 | 100 | 300 | - | 500 |
Islington | 100 | 200 | 200 | - | 600 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 100 | 200 | 200 | - | 500 |
Kingston upon Thames | - | 100 | 100 | - | 200 |
Lambeth | 200 | 100 | 300 | - | 600 |
Lewisham | 100 | 100 | 400 | - | 600 |
Merton | - | 100 | 100 | - | 200 |
Newham | 200 | 100 | 500 | - | 800 |
Redbridge | 100 | 100 | 200 | - | 400 |
Richmond upon Thames | - | - | 100 | - | 200 |
Southwark | 100 | 100 | 200 | - | 500 |
Sutton | - | - | 100 | - | 100 |
Tower Hamlets | 200 | 200 | 500 | - | 900 |
Waltham Forest | 200 | 100 | 300 | - | 600 |
Wandsworth | 200 | 100 | 300 | - | 600 |
Westminster | 200 | 200 | 400 | - | 800 |
Notes:
The benefit cap will be lowered from 7th November from £26,000 to £20,000, except in London where it will be lowered to £23,000 (a lower cap applies to single adult households). To help ensure Local Authorities are able to protect the most vulnerable Housing Benefit claimants and to support households adjusting to our welfare reforms, the Government will provide £870m funding for Discretionary Housing Payments over the next 5 years from 2016/17. Information about this and other measures to ease the transition for families affected by this policy change is included in the latest impact assessment at the link above.