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Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

Asked by John GlenConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 14 July 2026UIN 15307

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in each of the past three financial years, how much Housing Benefit has been paid to providers of Supported Accommodation.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

The Department's Benefit Expenditure and Caseload outturn and forecast tables can be found in the ‘Housing Benefits’ sheet here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2026.

Equivalent estimates are not available for earlier years due to historical data quality issues in the recording of supported accommodation cases.

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