Jeremy Corbyn
Labour, Islington North
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what level of transitional funding for housing allowance has been allocated to each London borough for the financial year (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13 to date; and what the intended level is in 2013-14.
Steve Webb
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
The following table provides details of the housing benefit transitional funding allocated to local authorities in London.
| £ | |||
| Local authority | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 294,875 | 68,143 | 41,448 |
| Barnet | — | 241,642 | 43,712 |
| Bexley | — | 38,447 | 23,841 |
| Brent | 216,526 | 522,149 | 86,081 |
| Bromley | — | 58,830 | 40,707 |
| Camden | — | 192,363 | 70;637 |
| City of London | — | 3,955 | 2,334 |
| Croydon | — | 192,448 | 56,397 |
| Ealing | — | 275,656 | 58,775 |
| Enfield | — | 215,103 | 46,898 |
| Greenwich | — | 60,022 | 59,401 |
| Hackney | — | 254,015 | 98,972 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | — | 133,623 | 57,931 |
| Haringey | 525,000 | 208,524 | 71,994 |
| Harrow | — | 82,093 | 23,481 |
| Havering | — | 43,903 | 20,758 |
| Hillingdon | — | 84,335 | 35,840 |
| Hounslow | — | 93,456 | 40,162 |
| Islington | — | 154,251 | 88,546 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | — | 460,766 | 45,666 |
| Kingston upon Thames | — | 46,965 | 16,005 |
| Lambeth | 266,000 | 125,739 | 102,129 |
| Lewisham | — | 177,545 | 69,082 |
| Merton | — | 62,890 | 23,722 |
| Newham | — | 116,368 | 66,449 |
| Redbridge | — | 114,632 | 23,253 |
| Richmond upon Thames | — | 37,760 | 18,187 |
| Southwark | — | 76,542 | 99,068 |
| Sutton | — | 46,359 | 20,950 |
| Tower Hamlets | — | 128,333 | 104,668 |
| Waltham Forest | — | 120,219 | 50,421 |
| Wandsworth | — | 195,959 | 60,939 |
| Westminster | — | 1,311,681 | 66,930 |
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