Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 15 December 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what expenditure his Department has incurred in (a) Birmingham, (b) Newcastle, (c) Wakefield, (d) Manchester, (e) Leeds, (f) Liverpool, (g) Coventry, (h) Bristol, (i) Sheffield, (j) Bradford, (k) Leicester and (l) Nottingham in the last fiscal year for which figures are available.
The information requested is shown in the following table.
More detailed benefit expenditure tables including outturn data for all local authorities can be found here:
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd4/index.php?page=expenditure
Local authority | Benefit expenditure 2010-11 (£ million) | |
(a) | Birmingham | 2,587.9 |
(b) | Newcastle upon Tyne | 681.1 |
(c) | Wakefield | 817.6 |
(d) | Manchester | 1,170.2 |
(e) | Leeds | 1,649.2 |
(f) | Liverpool | 1,418.4 |
(g) | Coventry | 767.2 |
(h) | Bristol | 946.2 |
(i) | Sheffield | 1,267.1 |
(j) | Bradford | 1,127.1 |
(k) | Leicester | 705.5 |
(l) | Nottingham | 703.8 |
Note: Figures rounded to nearest hundred thousand. Source: DWP Statistical and Accounting data, and local authority subsidy returns |
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