Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the London Borough of Brent who have had their benefits capped under the household benefit cap have subsequently moved out of that borough.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The information requested is not readily available and can only be be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the London Borough of Brent have been subject to the household benefit cap for (a) less than one month, (b) between one and three months, (c) between three and six months and (d) more than six months.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the London Borough of Brent are affected by the household benefit cap; what the composition of the households is; and what the length of time and amount capped by the household benefit cap is.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The following information on number of households capped (latest data March 2014) is available by Local Authority at :
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-march-2014
Data is available on number of households capped (current and cumulative), amount capped, number of dependents and household type.
Details on length of time capped is not available.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how much each local authority returned to his Department in unused discretionary housing payment funding in 2013-14.
Answered by Steve Webb
Local authorities are required to submit their claims for funding for Discretionary Housing Payments by 30 April following the end of the financial year.
Until the returns have been received from each authority, we are not in a position to say how much of this funding has been unused.
At the end of the 2012/13 year, of the £67,906,916 made available by central Government towards Discretionary Housing Payments, £12,453,471 (18.34%) was unspent.