{"value":{"id":60966,"askingMemberId":1521,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2014-06-10T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2014-06-12T00:00:00","uin":"199861","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in (a) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (b) the Sunderland local authority area and (c) the North East region are paying the under-occupancy penalty; and how many of those households contain someone registered as disabled.","answeringBodyId":29,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Work and Pensions","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4084,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2014-06-17T00:00:00","answerText":"

The information requested in respect of Housing Benefit (HB) claimants affected by the under occupancy penalty for region and local authority is published in Table 3 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-housing-benefit-claimants-and-average-weekly-spare-room-subsidy-amount-withdrawal

Further geographical information including Parliamentary Constituency is also available in Stat-Xplore here:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to extract the information can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

Information on those households containing someone registered as disabled is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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