Housing Benefit: Lancashire

Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 21 February 2012.

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Photo of Jake Berry Jake Berry Conservative, Rossendale and Darwen

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many working households within (a) Rossendale borough council and (b) Blackburn and Darwen council area were in receipt of housing benefit in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Photo of Steve Webb Steve Webb The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

The economic status of all HB recipients is not available. Information is only available for those HB recipients whose claim is not passported: that is for those who do not receive either income support, jobseekers allowance (income-based), employment and support allowance (income-based), or pension credit (guarantee credit). A small proportion of the passported cases will be in part-time employment. The available information is shown in the following table.

Housing benefit recipients, non-passported, in employment, in Rossendale and Blackburn & Darwen local authority areas: October-2011
  October 2011
    of which
  All non passported In employment
Blackburn with Darwen UA 3,610 1,680
Rossendale 1,490 590
Notes: 1. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 2. Recipients are as at second Thursday of the month. 3. These data incorporate the local authority changes from 1 April 2009. 4. SHBE is a monthly electronic scan of claimant level data direct from local authority computer systems. It replaces quarterly aggregate clerical returns. The data are available monthly from November 2008 and October 2011 are the most recent available. 5. These data refer to people receiving housing benefit not in receipt of a passported benefit and are recorded as being in employment if their local authority has recorded employment income from either the main claimant, or the claimant's partner (if applicable), in calculating the housing benefit award. People receiving passported housing benefit who are working part-time cannot be identified and are therefore not included in this analysis. 6. Does not include recipients with unknown passported status. 7. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE).

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