Housing Benefit

(asked on 14th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working households in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) the East Midlands and (c) the UK were in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last three financial years.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 17th November 2016

The requested figures are not available for UK. This response includes estimates for Great Britain.

Table 1. Estimates for the number of In-Work Families in receipt of Housing Benefit for East-Midlands and Great Britain

Millions

In-Work Families in receipt of Housing Benefit

Financial Year

East Midlands

Great Britain

2012/13

0.1

1.2

2013/14

0.1

1.3

2014/15

0.1

1.3

Source: Family Resources Survey 2012/13, 2013/14, and 2014/15

Notes:

  1. Estimates have been rounded to nearest 100,000
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