[holding answer 11 December 2008]: As at August 2007, the most recent available information, there were 518,600 housing benefit recipients in the north-west. At the same date there were 14,000 housing benefit recipients in Stockport metropolitan borough council area. Housing benefit information is not available at constituency level.
Notes:
1. Data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple.
2. The figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
3. Figures for any non-responding authorities have been estimated.
Source:
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System
Quarterly 100 per cent. caseload stock-count taken in August 2007.