PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing Benefit (20 March 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average housing benefit paid in (a) Islington, (b) Greater London and (c) England was for tenants of (i) council property, (ii) housing associations and (iii) the private sector in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Jeremy Corbyn (Your Party)

The information we have is for the average weekly Housing Benefit award, by tenure and various geographies, up to November 2014 and this is available 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/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

Answered by:
Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)
25 March 2015