Asked by: Aidan Burley (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on housing benefit in (a) Cannock Chase and (b) Staffordshire in each of the last five years.
Answered by Steve Webb
The information requested is shown in the tables below.
Further benefit expenditure can be found at the following URL:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables
Housing Benefit expenditure, £ million, nominal | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 |
Cannock Chase | 19.1 | 23.4 | 25.5 | 27.0 | 28.0 |
Staffordshire | 132.5 | 159.5 | 171.5 | 181.8 | 192.1 |
Source: Local Authority subsidy returns.