Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
(asked on 28th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) East Ham constituency, (b) the London Borough of Newham and (c) Greater London have been classified as under-occupying their homes in each year since 2012.
The figures requested are in the table below:
Households classified as under-occupying: East Ham constituency, 2013-2016
August 2013 | 750 |
August 2014 | 650 |
August 2015 | 600 |
August 2016 | 560 |
Households classified as under-occupying: London Borough of Newham, 2013-2016
August 2013 | 2,140 |
August 2014 | 1,850 |
August 2015 | 1,680 |
August 2016 | 1,570 |
Households classified as under-occupying: Greater London, 2013-2016
Thousands
August 2013 | 55.3 |
August 2014 | 48.2 |
August 2015 | 45.1 |
August 2016 | 41.3 |
Notes:
- Constituency and Local Authority figures have been rounded to the nearest ten, and regional figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
- Figures are numbers of households receiving Housing Benefit with a spare room subsidy deduction. This policy only affects working age households in the social rented sector.
- Figures have not been provided for August 2012 as the social rented sector spare room subsidy policy did not exist until April 2013.
- A small number of households now receive their housing support through Universal Credit. The table covers Housing Benefit only as equivalent Universal Credit data are not yet available.