Social Security Benefits: Greater London
(asked on 27th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of claimants affected by the lower benefit cap in each London borough are in receipt of (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) income support and (d) another benefit.
Estimated breakdown of households affected by the lower cap levels by benefit receipt, 2016/17, can be found in the table below;
| Number of capped households 16/17 | Employment and Support Allowance | Income Support | Jobseeker's Allowance | Other | Total (Housing Benefit) |
Barking and Dagenham | 500 | 14% | 48% | 23% | 15% | 100% |
Barnet | 800 | 28% | 32% | 25% | 15% | 100% |
Bexley | 300 | 13% | 57% | 14% | 15% | 100% |
Brent | 1,500 | 20% | 27% | 39% | 14% | 100% |
Bromley | 200 | 15% | 56% | 20% | 8% | 100% |
Camden | 600 | 36% | 26% | 30% | 9% | 100% |
City of London | - | 27% | 47% | 13% | 13% | 100% |
Croydon | 700 | 18% | 43% | 21% | 17% | 100% |
Ealing | 1,300 | 21% | 36% | 28% | 15% | 100% |
Enfield | 1,200 | 19% | 52% | 14% | 15% | 100% |
Greenwich | 400 | 12% | 56% | 19% | 13% | 100% |
Hackney | 1,200 | 30% | 29% | 30% | 11% | 100% |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 500 | 29% | 34% | 27% | 10% | 100% |
Haringey | 800 | 23% | 45% | 21% | 11% | 100% |
Harrow | 300 | 14% | 40% | 19% | 27% | 100% |
Havering | 300 | 14% | 60% | 13% | 13% | 100% |
Hillingdon | 500 | 15% | 50% | 20% | 16% | 100% |
Hounslow | 500 | 18% | 46% | 20% | 16% | 100% |
Islington | 600 | 31% | 34% | 29% | 7% | 100% |
Kensington and Chelsea | 500 | 31% | 27% | 27% | 15% | 100% |
Kingston upon Thames | 200 | 28% | 35% | 23% | 13% | 100% |
Lambeth | 600 | 17% | 51% | 20% | 12% | 100% |
Lewisham | 600 | 16% | 53% | 17% | 14% | 100% |
Merton | 200 | 20% | 34% | 28% | 18% | 100% |
Newham | 800 | 21% | 39% | 23% | 17% | 100% |
Redbridge | 400 | 16% | 39% | 20% | 25% | 100% |
Richmond upon Thames | 200 | 30% | 34% | 25% | 11% | 100% |
Southwark | 500 | 25% | 52% | 15% | 8% | 100% |
Sutton | 100 | 22% | 50% | 16% | 13% | 100% |
Tower Hamlets | 900 | 25% | 36% | 27% | 12% | 100% |
Waltham Forest | 600 | 16% | 40% | 31% | 13% | 100% |
Wandsworth | 600 | 22% | 34% | 30% | 15% | 100% |
Westminster | 800 | 34% | 25% | 28% | 13% | 100% |
These estimates focus on the benefit cap continuing to be applied under Housing Benefit and therefore all households affected will be in receipt of Housing Benefit. The benefit cap will increasingly be applied under Universal Credit as it gradually rolls out. Universal Credit will replace Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, income-based Employment and Support Allowance and Housing Benefit, along with Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit.
Notes:
- Figures may not sum due to rounding.
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.
- Estimates assume no behavioural responses - any behavioural responses to the lower cap, such as claimants moving into employment, would cause the number of households affected to reduce and may change the proportional split.
- The methodology used to estimate the households affected by the cap is consistent with that described in the latest impact assessment published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap
Actual data for number of capped households in each London borough at January 2017 is not yet available: The information will be published on 4th May 2017, as part of the next scheduled Benefit Cap Official Statistics release.
Benefit Cap Official Statistics can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics.
Note: Each Local Authority has a schedule to extract and return their data to DWP over a four week rolling period, which does not necessarily correspond to a calendar month. This means that the statistics do not show the number of capped cases on a particular date but over a monthly cycle, so published statistics will show data for January 2017.