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Housing Benefit

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 53352, tabled on 21 September 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of applications for Housing Benefit in (a) Birmingham and (b) England in the last (i) 12 months, (ii) 3 years and (iii) 5 years.

Answered on

11 October 2022

The information requested for the number of Housing Benefit applications is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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