The most recent available information is given in the tables.
Housing benefit and council tax benefit figures are not available by parliamentary constituency.
Number Housing benefit 12,990 Council tax benefit 16,690 Notes: 1. Figures are as at 8 October 2009. 2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Claimants receiving both housing benefit and council tax benefit will be counted twice in this table 4. On 1 April 2009 structural changes to the local authorities in England took effect. Changes are reflected from May 2009. Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract
Benefit Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency London borough of Bexley Disability living allowance—cases in payment 3,550 8,980 Incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance claimants 2,300 6,100 Income support claimants 2,260 6,390 Employment and support allowance claimants 310 800 Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Some additional disclosure has been applied. 2. Claimants receiving more than one of these benefits will be counted under each benefit 3. Disability living allowance figures show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example, if they are in hospital. 4. Employment and support allowance replaced incapacity benefit and income support paid on the grounds of incapacity for new claims from 27 October 2008. The figures relating to employment and support allowance have been thoroughly quality assured to National Statistics standard. However, it should be noted that this is a new benefit using a new data source which may not have reached steady state in terms of operational processing and retrospection. Hence the most recent data shown are provisional. Source: DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.