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Housing Benefit

Volume 268: debated on Wednesday 20 December 1995

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Mr. George Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many discretionary payments under regulation 69(8) have been made; for what amounts; and what percentage this was of total housing benefit expenditure, in each year since 1991£92. [5055]

Housing benefit discretionary expenditure: Great Britain

Year

Discretionary payment expenditure £

Percentage of total housing benefit expenditure

1992–93740,0000.01
1993–94960,0000.01
  • 1. Expenditure figures are final audited returns rounded to the nearest £10,000.
  • 2. Percentages have been rounded to the nearest hundredth of a per cent.
  • 3. Reliable data is not available for 1991–92.
  • 4. Detail of the numbers of discretionary payments made is not collected.