Local Housing Allowance: Wales

(asked on 16th May 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 19th May 2022

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.

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