Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 26 November 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of tenants in the private rented sector were in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last 10 years.
The information from 2008 to 2015 is available and is published 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---SuperWEB2.html
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit caseload data prior to 2008 can be found at:
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