Chris Grayling
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people claimed housing benefit (a) in each of the last five years and (b) in each month of the last two years.
Kitty Ussher
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions
Figures for numbers of claimants are not available. Figures for the number of recipients are available and can be supplied only on a quarterly basis.
The available information is in the tables.
| Number of recipients of housing benefit in Great Britain 2003-07 | |
| Number | |
| 2003 | 3,813,560 |
| 2004 | 3,943,590 |
| 2005 | 3,981,020 |
| 2006 | 4,024,280 |
| 2007 | 4,040,940 |
| Notes: 1. Figures for any non-responding local authorities have been estimated. 2. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 3. The figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System Quarterly 100 per cent. taken in August 2003 to August 2007. | |
| Number of recipients of housing benefit in Great Britain in 2006-07 | |
| Number | |
| February 2006 | 3,998,430 |
| May 2006 | 3,990,030 |
| August 2006 | 4,024,280 |
| November 2006 | 4,028,760 |
| February 2007 | 4,039,750 |
| May 2007 | 4,031,810 |
| August 2007 | 4,040,940 |
| Notes: 1. Figures for any non-responding local authorities have been estimated. 2. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 3. The figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System Quarterly 100 per cent. taken in February 2006 to August 2007. | |
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