Housing Benefit

(asked on 8th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average amount of housing benefit provided per dwelling for (1) council housing, (2) housing association properties, and (3) privately rented properties, in England and Wales for each year since 2010.


Answered by
Baroness Buscombe Portrait
Baroness Buscombe
This question was answered on 21st February 2018

The available information is shown in the table below.

Table 1: Annual average award amount for Housing Benefit by detailed housing type in England and Wales, August 2010 to August 2017

£

Detailed Housing Type

Aug-10

Aug-11

Aug-12

Aug-13

Aug-14

Aug-15

Aug-16

Aug-17

England

LA tenant (SRS)

69.20

73.12

78.24

79.58

83.36

86.12

86.29

85.27

Registered social landlord tenant (SRS)

79.40

82.52

87.78

89.00

93.27

95.94

96.98

97.18

Private regulated tenant (PRS)

78.62

81.60

85.44

89.26

93.15

96.05

99.64

103.79

Private deregulated tenant (LHA) (PRS)

116.60

115.74

110.01

109.06

110.66

112.55

113.98

114.28

Private deregulated tenant (non-LHA) (PRS)

106.76

106.20

107.05

107.20

108.81

110.75

113.96

117.63

Wales

LA tenant (SRS)

61.37

64.74

67.52

67.52

69.81

72.83

75.04

77.26

Registered social landlord tenant (SRS)

69.74

72.10

76.16

76.69

80.25

83.20

85.05

87.33

Private regulated tenant (PRS)

56.41

57.52

58.47

60.40

62.86

64.20

65.63

67.54

Private deregulated tenant (LHA) (PRS)

86.40

85.06

81.44

80.51

80.46

81.18

81.03

80.15

Private deregulated tenant (non-LHA) (PRS)

76.57

76.56

76.76

76.48

77.82

79.69

81.23

82.44

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