Housing Benefit: Young People
(asked on 5th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of housing benefit are 18 to 21 years old; and how much his Department spent in each of the last three years on housing benefit for 18 to 21 year olds.
At August 2014, the latest period for which data is available, there were 115,935 Housing Benefit claimants aged 18 to 21.
Expenditure information is in the table below.
Housing Benefit expenditure for 18 to 21 year olds, £millions | ||
| Nominal terms | Real terms, 2014/15 prices |
2011/12 | 776 | 818 |
2012/13 | 750 | 778 |
2013/14 | 685 | 698 |
Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract and Local Authority subsidy returns.
Notes:
1. Benefit expenditure is available for financial years only.
2. Figures at 2014/15 prices are deflated using GDP deflators published following the 2014 Autumn Statement at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/383988/GDP_Deflators_Autumn_Statement_December_2014_update.xls
3. Information on the number of Housing Benefit claimants is published on Stat-Xplore at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/