How Much Housing Benefit is Paid Out?

During 2006-7 we paid out £405.4m in Housing Benefit. Of this, £195.5m was paid to public sector tenants, and £209.9m to private sector tenants.

Cutting out fraud is high on our agenda and we are working hard to detect fraud and prosecute for it. This year we referred 475 cases to the Benefit Investigation Service of the Social Security Agency.