Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Garston and Halewood Constituency and (b) Liverpool City Region received housing benefit subject to a non-dependent deduction in each year since April 2010.
The information requested for each year since 2010 is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Latest data (November 2016) shows the number of Housing Benefit claimants subject to a non-dependent deduction in Garston and Halewood constituency is 474. In the Liverpool City Region it is 6017.
Further information including HB recipients with non-dependents by location can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html