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Housing Benefits

Volume 270: debated on Monday 29 January 1996

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of expenditure in Scotland in 1995–96 and 1996–97 on (a) income support for mortgage interest payments and (b) housing benefit. [11141]

The information is set out in the table.

Projected expenditure in Scotland
£ million 1995–961996–97
Income Support mortgage interest payments3535
Housing Benefit890980
1. The income support mortgage interest figures for Scotland for 1995–96 and 1996–97 have been derived by applying the same percentage of estimated expenditure for Scotland in 1994–95 to projected expenditure for Great Britain in 1995–96 and 1996–97.2. Figures are rounded to the nearest £5 million.