Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants in each London borough were affected by the lower benefit cap on 31 January 2017.
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:
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.