Housing Benefit: Supported Housing
(asked on 22nd October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total Housing Benefit expenditure on supported exempt accommodation was in (a) Birmingham, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in 2025–26; and what proportion of the national total was accounted for by Birmingham.
Answered by
Stephen Timms
Minister of State (Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government) (Equalities)
The Department estimates that expenditure on supported exempt accommodation through Housing Benefit in England, the West Midlands and Birmingham for the 2025/26 financial year was:
| HB supported exempt expenditure 2025/26 |
England | £ 2,877m |
West Midlands | £ 704m |
Birmingham | £ 508m |
Expenditure on supported exempt accommodation in Birmingham accounts for 18% of the spend in England in 2025/26.