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Housing Benefit

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN HL5512, tabled on 8 February 2018

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average amount of housing benefit provided per dwelling for (1) council housing, (2) housing association properties, and (3) privately rented properties, in England and Wales for each year since 2010.

Answered on

21 February 2018

The available information is shown in the table below.

Table 1: Annual average award amount for Housing Benefit by detailed housing type in England and Wales, August 2010 to August 2017

£

Detailed Housing Type

Aug-10

Aug-11

Aug-12

Aug-13

Aug-14

Aug-15

Aug-16

Aug-17

England

LA tenant (SRS)

69.20

73.12

78.24

79.58

83.36

86.12

86.29

85.27

Registered social landlord tenant (SRS)

79.40

82.52

87.78

89.00

93.27

95.94

96.98

97.18

Private regulated tenant (PRS)

78.62

81.60

85.44

89.26

93.15

96.05

99.64

103.79

Private deregulated tenant (LHA) (PRS)

116.60

115.74

110.01

109.06

110.66

112.55

113.98

114.28

Private deregulated tenant (non-LHA) (PRS)

106.76

106.20

107.05

107.20

108.81

110.75

113.96

117.63

Wales

LA tenant (SRS)

61.37

64.74

67.52

67.52

69.81

72.83

75.04

77.26

Registered social landlord tenant (SRS)

69.74

72.10

76.16

76.69

80.25

83.20

85.05

87.33

Private regulated tenant (PRS)

56.41

57.52

58.47

60.40

62.86

64.20

65.63

67.54

Private deregulated tenant (LHA) (PRS)

86.40

85.06

81.44

80.51

80.46

81.18

81.03

80.15

Private deregulated tenant (non-LHA) (PRS)

76.57

76.56

76.76

76.48

77.82

79.69

81.23

82.44