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Housing Benefit

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 21 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the expenditure by each London local authority on discretionary housing payments was in each of the last five years. (185975)

The information is in the following table.

Total discretionary housing payments spend by London local authority

£000

Local authority

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Barking

10

19

58

40

114

Barnet

165

195

179

226

215

Bexley

37

31

50

48

68

Brent

143

143

234

206

253

Bromley

5

36

63

81

71

Camden

170

147

122

138

141

City of London

0

0

0

1

3

Croydon

111

154

157

160

171

Ealing

210

185

204

259

243

Enfield

45

127

129

170

154

Greenwich

185

185

378

373

323

Hackney

41

36

120

79

134

Hammersmith

99

117

110

117

132

Haringey

63

120

198

219

333

Harrow

59

67

104

83

102

Havering

63

43

43

51

53

Hillingdon

93

110

122

112

97

Hounslow

72

78

46

40

77

Islington

28

22

57

78

104

Kensington and Chelsea

63

81

213

121

163

Kingston-upon-Thames

25

38

51

51

48

Lambeth

69

124

125

146

132

Lewisham

114

137

138

144

98

Merton

56

78

109

108

76

Newham

113

113

0

175

238

Redbridge

143

122

83

68

88

Richmond-upon-Thames

92

90

92

106

102

Southwark

122

120

133

111

110

Sutton

34

39

70

56

48

Tower Hamlets

111

113

142

157

93

Waltham Forest

109

86

141

89

179

Wandsworth

88

75

87

47

77

Westminster

160

154

172

176

186

London total

2,900

3,200

3,900

4,000

4,400

Note:

1. Amounts are rounded to the nearest thousand

2. The total is rounded to the nearest 100 thousand

3. The latest available audited expenditure information for discretionary housing payments is for the financial year 2006-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which local authorities in London did not spend the whole of their discretionary housing payments budget in 2006-07. (185976)

The London local authorities that did not spend the whole of their discretionary housing payment allocation for 2006-07 are:

Camden

Harrow

Havering

Hillingdon

Kensington and Chelsea

Kingston-upon-Thames

Lambeth

Lewisham

Merton

Newham

Red bridge

Richmond-upon-Thames

Southwark

Sutton

Tower Hamlets

Wandsworth

Westminster

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households received discretionary housing payments in each London local authority area in 2005-06. (185977)