Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average difference between the rent being paid by individuals in receipt of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and the LHA rate in each local authority in Wales in the most recent period for which data is available.
As of November 2021, the average monthly difference between the rent being paid by individuals in receipt of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and the LHA rate in each Welsh local authority is as below:
Local Authority | Average monthly difference between rent and LHA rate |
Blaenau Gwent | £75 |
Bridgend | £59 |
Caerphilly | £69 |
Cardiff | £12 |
Carmarthenshire | £58 |
Ceredigion | £50 |
Conwy | £74 |
Denbighshire | £67 |
Flintshire | £48 |
Gwynedd | £70 |
Isle of Anglesey | £49 |
Merthyr Tydfil | £65 |
Monmouthshire | £91 |
Neath Port Talbot | £68 |
Newport | £49 |
Pembrokeshire | £75 |
Powys | £81 |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | £64 |
Swansea | £30 |
Torfaen | £59 |
Vale of Glamorgan | £78 |
Wrexham | £45 |
Average difference figures include both households where the rent paid by individuals is lower than the LHA and households where the rent paid by individuals is higher than the LHA. Positive values relate to where monthly rent is higher than the monthly LHA rate on average in a local authority.