PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing Benefit: Islington (11 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claims for housing benefit were approved in (a) the London Borough of Islington and (b) Islington South and Finsbury constituency in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Emily Thornberry (Labour)

The available information on the number of new claims for housing benefit by local authority is published and available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-statistics-on-speed-of-processing--2

The same information by Parliamentary Constituency is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
18 June 2015