Housing Benefit

House of Lords written question – answered am ar 14 Mawrth 2013.

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Photo of Lord Greaves Lord Greaves Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol

To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the allocations to each local authority for discretionary housing payments (DHP) (1) in total, and (2) for each category of DHP.

Photo of Lord Freud Lord Freud The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Local authorities receive a single allocation towards discretionary housing payments. The amount they receive is not broken down into separate categories to ensure local authorities have maximum flexibility to deal with local circumstances.

Details of the allocation to each local authority for 2013-14 are as follows:

Local Authority Government contribution
Aberdeen £226,785
Aberdeenshire £160,695
Adur £91,741
Allerdale £121,124
Amber Valley £174,225
Angus £130,802
Argyll and Bute £152,601
Arun £249,622
Ashfield £222,973
Ashford £170,625
Aylesbury Vale £180,088
Babergh £115,215
Barking & Dagenham £1,310,802
Barnet £1,998,661
Barnsley £364,513
Barrow in Furness £99,921
Basildon £405,844
Basingstoke and Deane £195,063
Bassetlaw £126,148
Bath & North East Somerset £243,479
Bedford £349,100
Bexley £533,858
Birmingham £3,770,701
Blaby £88,011
Blackburn with Darwen £376,643
Blackpool £693,562
Blaenau Gwent £160,251
Bolsover £92,187
Bolton £623,659
Boston £90,500
Bournemouth £502,652
Bracknell Forest £139,795
Bradford £1,176,314
Braintree £199,001
Breckland £197,748
Brent £4,815,410
Brentwood £100,955
Bridgend £279,100
Brighton and Hove £1,014,714
Bristol £1,137,227
Broadland £99,507
Bromley £700,174
Bromsgrove £90,358
Broxbourne £230,976
Broxtowe £107,734
Burnley £202,307
Bury £324,003
Caerphilly £292,597
Calderdale £383,941
Cambridge £182,340
Camden £1,680,807
Cannock Chase £114,555
Canterbury £197,878
Cardiff £1,102,669
Carlisle £142,640
Carmarthenshire £280,840
Castle Point £155,005
Central Bedfordshire £280,944
Ceredigion £163,391
Charnwood £132,326
Chelmsford £230,903
Cheltenham £189,052
Cherwell £203,354
Cheshire East £451,401
Cheshire West and Chester £450,773
Chesterfield £169,828
Chichester £233,549
Chiltern £99,288
Chorley £126,621
Christchurch £81,952
City of London £36,373
Clackmannanshire £162,088
Colchester £448,524
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar £49,911
Conwy £242,700
Copeland £94,263
Corby £92,250
Cornwall £867,795
Cotswold £88,837
Coventry £798,643
Craven £62,717
Crawley £255,365
Croydon £1,791,425
Dacorum £256,222
Darlington £224,185
Dartford £154,767
Daventry £74,259
Denbighshire £217,194
Derby £560,754
Derbyshire Dales £69,705
Doncaster £518,953
Dover £227,343
Dudley £494,398
Dumfries and Galloway £232,271
Dundee £311,904
Durham £883,089
Ealing £3,127,358
East Ayrshire £142,006
East Cambridgeshire £101,414
East Devon £176,239
East Dorset £98,435
East Dunbartonshire £102,051
East Hampshire £91,865
East Hertfordshire £162,055
East Lindsey £219,168
East Lothian £125,982
East Northamptonshire £85,490
East Renfrewshire £82,776
East Riding of Yorkshire £374,414
East Staffordshire £130,209
Eastbourne £256,602
Eastleigh £127,292
Eden £51,990
Edinburgh £1,347,299
Elmbridge £282,500
Enfield £3,246,226
Epping Forest £206,998
Epsom and Ewell £130,857
Erewash £195,535
Exeter £219,021
Falkirk £136,698
Fareham £89,833
Fenland £146,827
Fife £435,614
Flintshire £242,119
Forest Heath £103,973
Forest of Dean £106,805
Fylde £105,441
Gateshead £373,518
Gedling £133,837
Glasgow £2,979,970
Gloucester £234,429
Gosport £134,600
Gravesham £198,353
Great Yarmouth £231,334
Greenwich £1,136,207
Guildford £206,697
Gwynedd £241,353
Hackney £2,324,080
Halton £282,452
Hambleton £85,775
Hammersmith and Fulham £1,488,830
Harborough £58,542
Haringey £2,422,506
Harlow £200,945
Harrogate £179,021
Harrow £1,223,994
Hart £72,264
Hartlepool £317,087
Hastings £320,232
Havant £204,320
Havering £582,761
Herefordshire £213,937
Hertsmere £187,929
High Peak £106,783
Highland £216,106
Hillingdon £1,245,418
Hinckley and Bosworth £93,843
Horsham £120,902
Hounslow £1,117,181
Huntingdonshire £169,561
Hyndburn £186,608
Inverclyde £212,068
Ipswich £289,363
Isle of Anglesey £136,536
Isle of Wight £226,320
Isles of Scilly £17,396
Islington £1,628,508
Kensington and Chelsea £2,263,207
Kettering £136,864
King's Lynn & West Norfolk £219,911
Kingston upon Hull £707,645
Kingston upon Thames £426,956
Kirklees £852,960
Knowsley £468,623
Lambeth £1,544,093
Lancaster £211,058
Leeds £1,924,162
Leicester £813,252
Lewes £180,542
Lewisham £1,666,074
Lichfield £102,808
Lincoln £199,741
Liverpool £1,606,233
Luton £573,104
Maidstone £247,458
Maldon £87,221
Malvern Hills £92,610
Manchester £1,922,105
Mansfield £155,246
Medway £563,046
Melton £51,644
Mendip £148,943
Merthyr Tydfil £124,556
Merton £641,766
Mid Devon £101,300
Mid Suffolk £88,555
Mid Sussex £128,262
Middlesbrough £483,272
Midlothian £150,453
Milton Keynes £576,204
Mole Valley £98,765
Monmouthshire £121,978
Moray £68,980
Neath Port Talbot £318,083
New Forest £198,899
Newark and Sherwood £126,616
Newcastle under Lyme £135,044
Newcastle upon Tyne £685,271
Newham £2,472,896
Newport £343,870
North Ayrshire £273,421
North Devon £133,055
North Dorset £68,387
North East Derbyshire £82,603
North East Lincolnshire £346,457
North Hertfordshire £164,689
North Kesteven £98,229
North Lanarkshire £374,676
North Lincolnshire £238,069
North Norfolk £112,312
North Somerset £382,340
North Tyneside £331,993
North Warwickshire £77,981
North West Leicestershire £94,912
Northampton £420,634
Northumberland £416,365
Norwich £288,314
Nottingham £696,031
Nuneaton and Bedworth £196,127
Oadby and Wigston £57,589
Oldham £498,663
Orkney £26,754
Oxford £525,369
Pembrokeshire £193,940
Pendle £142,591
Perth and Kinross £149,177
Peterborough £431,147
Plymouth £467,875
Poole £275,652
Portsmouth £472,895
Powys £154,975
Preston £246,193
Purbeck £66,674
Reading £492,480
Redbridge £1,620,804
Redcar and Cleveland £308,690
Redditch £136,516
Reigate and Banstead £152,284
Renfrewshire £251,714
Rhondda Cynon Taf £451,301
Ribble Valley £46,969
Richmond upon Thames £406,202
Richmondshire £54,366
Rochdale £517,104
Rochford £99,169
Rossendale £118,986
Rother £157,471
Rotherham £437,763
Rugby £111,451
Runnymede £102,996
Rushcliffe £82,416
Rushmoor £134,085
Rutland £36,068
Ryedale £63,868
Salford £679,931
Sandwell £739,954
Scarborough £215,431
Scottish Borders £170,470
Sedgemoor £169,645
Sefton £547,790
Selby £89,422
Sevenoaks £126,778
Sheffield £995,802
Shepway £252,002
Shetland £22,223
Shropshire £277,475
Slough £678,526
Solihull £294,866
South Ayrshire £233,422
South Bucks £87,728
South Cambridgeshire £151,251
South Derbyshire £102,358
South Gloucestershire £327,799
South Hams £143,678
South Holland £91,630
South Kesteven £130,752
South Lakeland £95,456
South Lanarkshire £413,967
South Norfolk £143,468
South Northamptonshire £58,950
South Oxfordshire £121,872
South Ribble £106,928
South Somerset £213,132
South Staffordshire £94,263
South Tyneside £305,483
Southampton £527,593
Southend on Sea £581,762
Southwark £1,119,665
Spelthorne £202,036
St Albans £170,097
St Edmundsbury £142,100
St Helens £399,636
Stafford £110,857
Staffordshire Moorlands £91,836
Stevenage £163,535
Stirling £111,886
Stockport £468,735
Stockton on Tees £395,220
Stoke on Trent £548,270
Stratford on Avon £216,801
Stroud £134,509
Suffolk Coastal £146,682
Sunderland £658,202
Surrey Heath £80,872
Sutton £454,861
Swale £323,270
Swansea £474,871
Swindon £280,944
Tameside £478,213
Tamworth £111,536
Tandridge £103,115
Taunton Deane £134,967
Teignbridge £186,222
Telford and Wrekin £356,911
Tendring £401,660
Test Valley £114,626
Tewkesbury £102,864
Thanet £401,310
Three Rivers £155,415
Thurrock £354,201
Tonbridge and Malling £129,610
Torbay £393,853
Torfaen £193,584
Torridge £93,699
Tower Hamlets £2,237,330
Trafford £374,833
Tunbridge Wells £143,019
Uttlesford £100,027
Vale of Glamorgan £219,639
Vale of White Horse £125,358
Wakefield £644,505
Walsall £590,745
Waltham Forest £1,517,954
Wandsworth £1,839,423
Warrington £292,712
Warwick £168,556
Watford £216,854
Waveney £225,093
Waverley £145,124
Wealden £177,594
Wellingborough £121,436
Welwyn Hatfield £160,761
West Berkshire £241,672
West Devon £71,305
West Dorset £119,046
West Dunbartonshire £325,468
West Lancashire £158,909
West Lindsey £114,798
West Lothian £239,205
West Oxfordshire £95,797
West Somerset £68,453
Westminster £5,930,283
Weymouth and Portland £150,321
Wigan £456,084
Wiltshire £474,331
Winchester £105,155
Windsor and Maidenhead £227,918
Wirral £917,214
Woking £166,627
Wokingham £123,395
Wolverhampton £633,653
Worcester £172,487
Worthing £160,257
Wrexham £198,082
Wychavon £124,639
Wycombe £247,140
Wyre £168,131
Wyre Forest £152,091
York £286,409
£155,000,000

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