Notes:

1. Information sourced from local authority claims for housing revenue account subsidy and housing benefit subsidy.

2. Figures to 2005-06 are taken from the final audited subsidy claims submitted to the Department by each local authority.

3. Figures for 2006-07 are not yet audited, and represent provisional out-turn for the year.

4. Figures exclude Asylum Seekers from April 1999, since when the National Asylum Support Service has reimbursed DWP for benefits paid to asylum seekers.

5. From 2004-05 rent rebate expenditure responsibility transferred to DWP.

6. Separation of rent allowance into private rental sector and registered social landlord elements is an estimate derived from the quarterly administrative data on caseloads and average awards. This breakdown is only available from 1992-93.

7. Expenditure on minor housing benefits reflects transitional spending following the reform of housing benefit in 1988. It is not possible to identify the tenure of minor housing benefits so these are shown separately.

8. Figures are total amounts paid to beneficiaries, irrespective of the source of funding, and include benefit spending reimbursed by DWP, spending on rent rebates financed within local authorities’ housing revenue accounts, and benefit spending financed from local authorities’ general funds.

9. Figures reflect the latest benefit-by-benefit estimate of out-turn, and not the amounts voted by Parliament.

10. Figures for 1999-2000 onwards are on a resource accounting and budgeting basis. There may be differences between figures quoted in these tables and those quoted in Department for Work and Pensions accounts.

11. Figures for past years may have changed since previous publication due to changes in methodology and the incorporation of more up-to-date information.

12.Totals may not sum due to rounding.

13. Real terms have been calculated using Gross Domestic Product deflators updated after the 2008 Budget report on 12 March 2008.

Source:

DWP expenditure tables