PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Support for Mortgage Interest: Scotland (26 February 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each Government Office region in Scotland receive support for mortgage interest; and how many of those people also receive (a) employment support allowance, (b) personal independence payments and (c) jobseeker’s allowance.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

Information on the number of Support for Mortgage Interest claimants in Scotland is published here: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-02-19/128199/.

The table below provides the Department’s estimate of the caseload of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) claiming ESA and JSA in Scotland.

	SMI and Employment and Support Allowance	SMI and Job Seeker’s Allowance
Scotland	5,000	-

Notes:

• Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000 cases. ‘-’ denotes under 500 cases.
• DWP does not hold a single source of data on SMI claims to analyse and quality assured data is not available for ESA claimants receiving SMI.
• In the absence of data the caseload of ESA and JSA claimants in Scotland has been estimated by assuming the claimant breakdown in Scotland is proportionally the same as the GB-level breakdown published in the Benefit Expenditure and Caseload Tables.

Robust estimates are not available on SMI claimants in receipt of Personal Independence Payment in Scotland or at geographies smaller than Scotland level.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
1 March 2018