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Council Tax Benefits: Hertfordshire

6 November 2008

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people he estimates were (a) eligible for and (b) in receipt of council tax benefit in (i) Hemel Hempstead and (ii) Hertfordshire in each year since 1997. [232752]

Kitty Ussher: The latest estimates of the number of entitled non recipients of means-tested benefit in Great Britain are published in the report ‘Income Related Benefits Estimates of Take-Up in 2006-07’. These include council tax benefit, income support, pension credit, housing benefit and jobseeker's allowance (income based). Copies are available in the Library.

Estimates of eligibility are not available below the level of Great Britain.

Information on recipients of council tax benefit at constituency level is not available.

The available information for Hertfordshire is in the table.

Number of recipients of council tax benefit in Hertfordshire as at May each year

Number

1997

66,170

1998

63,480

1999

60,320

2000

57,280

2001

54,370

2002

54,270

2003

55,710

2004

58,130

2005

60,360

2006

62,440

2007

62,990

Notes:
1. Data refers to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple.
2. The figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
3. Figures for any non-responding authorities have been estimated.
4. Council tax benefit totals exclude any second adult rebate cases.
Source:
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System Quarterly 100 per cent caseload stock-count taken in May 1997 to May 2007

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