Information on council tax benefit is available only from 1993-94 when it was introduced. The available information is in the following tables:
Expenditure (£ million) Caseload (Thousand) 1993-94 1,940 5,450 1994-95 2,077 5,615 1995-96 2,189 5,690 1996-97 2,311 5,618 1997-98 2,395 5,479 1998-99 2,452 5,306 1999-2000 2,511 5,051 2000-01 2,575 4,761 2001-02 2,686 4,664 2002-03 2,834 4,625 2003-04 3,223 4,693 2004-05 3,557 4,915 2005-06 3,774 5,029 2006-07 3,944 5,080 2007-08 4,023 5,089 Notes: 1. The expenditure figures presented here reflect nominal costs for the whole of Great Britain. 2. They are total amounts paid to beneficiaries, irrespective of the source of funding, and include benefit spending reimbursed by DWP, and benefit spending financed from local authorities' general funds. 3. They reflect the latest benefit-by-benefit estimate of outturn, and not the amounts voted by Parliament. 4. Figures for 2006-07 and 2007-08 are estimated outturn and may change slightly once subsidy returns from all local authorities are audited. 5. Council tax benefit was introduced in April 1993. Source: Published expenditure tables to 2006-07, and estimated outturn for 2007-08.