Social Security Benefits: Payments
(asked on 14th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the change was in annual social security payments in the UK between 2012 and the projected annual cost by 31 March 2017.
The available information is in the table below.
The table shows DWP Annually Managed Expenditure within the current definition of social security payments for Great Britain. Expenditure in Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Executive.
Expenditure £bn | 2012/13 | 2016/17 | Change | Change |
| Outturn | Forecast | £bn | % |
Nominal | 159.9 | 172.7 | 12.7 | 8.0% |
Real Terms (2016/17 prices) | 169.4 | 172.7 | 3.3 | 1.9% |
Figures are based on Budget 2017 expenditure as published by the Office for Budget Responsibility on 8 March 2017.
Council Tax Benefit, which was part of DWP’s expenditure in 2012/13, has been excluded from the figures to aid comparison.