Housing Benefit: Liverpool City Region

(asked on 29th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Liverpool City Region in receipt of housing benefit subject to the spare room subsidy were living in (a) two or (b) three bedroom properties in each year since April 2013.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 19th April 2017

The information requested is in the tables below, with the exception that providing a subset of the caseloads to where disability living allowance or personal independence payment is received is not possible without disproportionate cost.

Table A – Housing Benefit Spare Room Subsidy Caseload by property size, Garston and Halewood, May 2013 - May 2016

All Cases

2-bed

3-bed

Other no of bedrooms

May 2013

2,075

510

1385

180

May 2014

1,790

430

1210

150

May 2015

1,650

395

1110

140

May 2016

1,500

355

1020

125

Notes:

  1. Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) administrative data.
  2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5 and may not sum due to rounding.

Table B – Housing Benefit Spare Room Subsidy Caseload by property size, Liverpool City Region, May 2013 - May 2016

All Cases

2-bed

3-bed

Other no of bedrooms

May 2013

28,800

9,560

17,390

1,845

May 2014

24,420

7,970

14,990

1,460

May 2015

22,750

7,400

13,995

1,350

May 2016

20,790

6,890

12,680

1,220

Notes:

  1. Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) administrative data.
  2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5 and may not sum due to rounding.
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