[holding answer 11 March 2010]: The most recent available information is in the table.
£ Local authority Local authority tenants Registered social landlord tenants Private tenants All tenancy types Camden 93.08 115.23 211.99 118.67 City of London 86.40 102.98 174.18 97.24 Hackney 91.68 108.11 194.93 120.33 Hammersmith and Fulham 90.72 124.58 196.77 124.77 Haringey 121.10 119.23 157.60 132.78 Islington 91.14 111.00 194.00 109.26 Kensington and Chelsea 123.75 117.47 274.64 154.47 Lambeth 107.44 99.94 148.65 112.94 Lewisham 86.22 90.81 162.65 109.08 Newham 132.36 121.84 167.97 142.92 Southwark 82.95 104.36 147.75 95.94 Tower Hamlets 121.78 100.57 193.32 119.57 Wandsworth 103.62 109.48 215.40 135.71 Westminster 97.73 127.03 310.74 182.54 Barking and Dagenham 86.52 102.39 158.61 107.69 Barnet 85.61 138.18 184.16 145.27 Bexley 266.29 89.38 148.43 110.33 Brent 108.77 145.21 199.75 159.12 Bromley — 97.96 143.12 110.48 Croydon 88.38 103.44 154.47 121.48 Ealing 121.71 120.37 178.32 141.57 Enfield 122.99 110.83 179.10 147.84 Greenwich 76.44 96.58 146.17 94.15 Harrow 81.11 143.85 180.14 147.75 Havering 84.54 90.94 149.34 104.98 Hillingdon 115.65 100.24 164.66 129.48 Hounslow 92.77 102.00 173.07 119.28 Kingston upon Thames 113.46 103.38 175.40 134.13 Merton 80.99 101.67 156.66 115.23 Redbridge 159.50 106.05 163.35 152.43 Richmond upon Thames 241.47 91.19 175.53 119.15 Sutton 76.83 95.32 151.45 107.21 Waltham Forest 105.49 99.94 149.23 119.36 Notes: 1. Data as at second Thursday of the month. 2. Average amounts of housing benefit are shown as pounds per week and rounded to the nearest penny. 3. Housing association tenants are shown as registered social landlord tenants. 4. Tenure type does not include recipients with unknown tenure type. 5. “—” denotes nil cases. 6. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 7. SHBE is a monthly electronic scan of claimant level data direct from local authority computer systems. It replaces quarterly aggregate clerical returns. The data are available monthly from November 2008 and October 2009 is the most recent available. Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE).