Housing Benefit: Private Rented Housing
(asked on 24th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they paid in housing benefit to private sector landlords in each year from 2010 to the last year for which figures are available.
The available information is in the tables below.
Housing Benefit paid for private rented sector accommodation, split by payment destination (£millions, real terms, 2018/19 prices) | |||
Financial Year | Total Housing Benefit paid for private tenants | Of which paid to the landlord | Of which paid to the claimant |
2010/11 | £9,880 | - | - |
2011/12 | £10,370 | - | - |
2012/13 | £10,220 | - | - |
2013/14 | £10,040 | £3,100 | £6,940 |
2014/15 | £9,730 | £3,020 | £6,710 |
2015/16 | £9,310 | £2,870 | £6,450 |
2016/17 | £8,600 | £2,630 | £5,970 |
2017/18 | £7,850 | £2,400 | £5,450 |
Source: DWP Stat-x-plore and Benefit Expenditure tables
Notes:
- Payment destination was unknown in around 1% of cases. This expenditure was assumed to be split between landlords and their tenants in the same proportion as the rest.
- Payment destination statistics for financial years before 2013/2014 are not available.
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10m and may not sum to totals due to rounding.
- Figures cover only Housing Benefit and do not include housing support paid through Universal Credit.