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Housing Benefit

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what average level of housing benefit was paid to claimants in (a) local authority, (b) housing association and (c) private rented accommodation in each London borough in (i) the latest month for which information is available and (ii) the same month in 2005-06. [85006]

Mr. Plaskitt: The most recent available information is for November 2005. Information for November 2004 has been provided for comparison. The information is in the table.

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Average amounts of housing benefit in payment by tenure in London boroughs: November 2004 and 2005
London borough	November 2004			November 2005
	LA	RSL	Private	LA	RSL	Private
Barking	61.46	70.27	117.92	65.32	74.97	124.07
Barnet	75.61	125.66	143.45	78.07	125.15	148.85
Bexley	253.40	69.47	112.63	303.64	71.98	116.12
Brent	88.11	113.09	135.05	91.61	117.11	139.48
Bromley	(1)—	75.36	121.71	(1)—	78.33	127.93
Camden	80.68	96.81	135.21	84.12	101.08	141.62
City of London	75.53	85.77	110.38	76.44	89.77	111.83
Croydon	69.09	90.35	127.80	71.58	91.80	133.00
Ealing	92.41	98.10	130.38	99.98	99.26	137.08
Enfield	98.23	106.05	128.97	103.04	108.71	137.66
Greenwich	60.94	76.02	112.39	63.19	78.93	119.36
Hackney	76.67	86.32	128.13	78.59	90.91	137.90
Hammersmith and Fulham	78.40	87.04	120.70	85.42	94.85	141.35
Haringey	105.11	107.77	116.30	114.35	111.44	121.95
Harrow	71.75	139.92	138.63	72.12	142.06	143.18
Havering	52.33	73.71	113.11	58.64	75.67	117.82
Hillingdon	97.76	80.94	121.59	105.93	80.89	128.95
Hounslow	72.63	80.71	122.84	77.47	82.33	128.36
Islington	75.14	83.13	118.71	77.55	89.17	126.52
Kensington and Chelsea	101.99	84.59	165.65	113.43	89.19	170.65
Kingston upon Thames	89.74	82.26	127.91	94.23	86.42	132.34
Lambeth	81.02	73.48	110.43	86.58	77.75	115.03
Lewisham	59.12	80.29	88.31	63.52	85.00	137.71
Merton	60.85	80.87	125.17	65.18	84.05	132.83
Newham	100.09	120.11	116.30	120.81	120.60	123.35
Redbridge	130.24	92.45	123.13	141.16	94.38	131.01
Richmond upon Thames	251.81	69.50	130.61	245.84	72.82	138.23
Southwark	65.45	78.87	118.05	67.95	81.51	119.76
Sutton	60.29	78.44	120.86	63.31	82.80	126.01
Tower Hamlets	89.13	79.20	120.60	92.91	82.18	140.05
Waltham Forest	89.11	76.67	105.61	96.46	79.13	114.55
Wandsworth	77.78	100.29	130.60	83.01	101.83	175.69
Westminster	119.12	115.58	171.96	144.40	109.52	179.86
(1) Data is nil or non applicable. This includes cases where the average amounts have been suppressed if the corresponding caseloads are nil or negligible. Notes: 1. Average amounts have been rounded to the nearest penny. 2. “LA” = local authority, “RSL” = registered social landlord. 3. LA figures include non-HRA rent rebates. Source: Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System Quarterly 100 per cent. caseload stock-count taken in November 2004 and November 2005.

Information Technology

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the (a) originally estimated, (b) most recently estimated and (c) outturn cost was in each of the five largest information technology contracts agreed with outside suppliers over the last five years. [71817]

James Purnell: Information that is available is in the following table.

Contract	Supplier	Original contract estimate (£ million)	Most recently estimated (£ million)
Accord / Standard Services Business Allocation (SSBA)	EDS	3,433.5	2,396.8
Accord / Integrated Communications and Network Services (ICONS)	BT	1,411.3	870.0
Pensions Transformation Project	Accenture	129.0	122.0
Benefits Processing Replacement Programme / Working Age Transformation and Change Programme	IBM	123.4	79.7
Central Payment System	Siemens	59.6	59.6

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