1998 No. 566

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1998

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred on her by sections 134(12) and 189(1) and (3) to (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 19921 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to her to be representative of the authorities concerned2, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 31st March 1998.

2

In this Order “the Permitted Totals Order” means the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 19963.

Permitted total of benefit awarded in exercise of a discretion2

1

In article 2 of the Permitted Totals Order (permitted total of benefit awarded in exercise of a discretion) the words following “housing benefit” shall be reimbursed as paragraph (a) of article 2 and after paragraph (a) there shall be added the following paragraphs—

b

for the year commencing on 1st April 1997 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amounts obtained by the calculations set out in articles 3 and 4 below; and

c

for any year commencing on or after 1st April 1998 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amount obtained by the calculation in article 3 below and the amount specified in the Schedule to this Order.

2

The Schedule to this Order shall be added as the Schedule to the Permitted Totals Order.

Permitted total of benefit in modified schemes3

In article 5 of the Permitted Totals Order for the words “the year commencing” there shall be substituted the words “any year commencing on or after”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Frank FieldMinister of State,Department of Social Security

SCHEDULE 1TOTALS FOR INCREASES ABOVE MAXIMUM RENT

Authority

Permitted total

£

England

Adur

43,510

Allerdale

50,711

Alnwick

10,257

Amber Valley

48,572

Arun

162,688

Ashfield

49,905

Ashford

44,675

Aylesbury Vale

58,249

Babergh

39,466

Barking & Dagenham

137,870

Barnet

532,789

Barnsley

112,840

Barrow-in-Furness

84,311

Basildon

88,461

Basingstoke

56,385

Bassetlaw

54,314

Bath & North East Somerset

123,079

Bedford

95,157

Berwick-upon-Tweed

13,883

Bexley

195,543

Birmingham

860,662

Blaby

19,006

Blackburn

120,638

Blackpool

427,261

Blyth Valley

28,991

Bolsover

51,111

Bolton

169,215

Boston

22,315

Bournemouth

415,617

Bracknell Forest

60,030

Bradford

470,010

Braintree

60,177

Breckland

46,267

Brent

782,498

Brentwood

30,318

Bridgnorth

14,922

Brighton & Hove

725,163

Bristol

401,292

Broadland

32,336

Bromley

205,873

Bromsgrove

15,790

Broxbourne

55,649

Broxtowe

45,383

Burnley

93,547

Bury

112,407

Calderdale

110,450

Cambridge

70,215

Camden

576,552

Cannock Chase

24,110

Canterbury

136,117

Caradon

74,609

Carlisle

59,003

Carrick

89,695

Castle Morpeth

11,068

Castle Point

77,066

Charnwood

71,528

Chelmsford

59,398

Cheltenham

103,348

Cherwell

102,154

Chester

65,619

Chester-le-Street

21,707

Chesterfield

58,165

Chichester

64,695

Chiltern

19,026

Chorley

34,334

Christchurch

24,829

City of London

5,215

Colchester

110,960

Congleton

19,203

Copeland

45,703

Corby

48,091

Cotswold

40,684

Coventry

290,561

Craven

24,041

Crawley

33,815

Crewe & Nantwich

47,525

Croydon

584,145

Dacorum

58,327

Darlington

84,059

Dartford

63,275

Daventry

15,811

Derby

178,971

Derbyshire Dales

14,983

Derwentside

40,160

Doncaster

153,528

Dover

145,213

Dudley

78,900

Durham City

23,699

Ealing

688,358

Easington

39,543

East Cambridgeshire

26,970

East Devon

78,394

East Dorset

27,403

East Hampshire

46,981

East Hertfordshire

43,330

East Lindsey

116,281

East Northamptonshire

29,716

East Riding of Yorkshire

207,949

East Staffordshire

46,968

Eastbourne

166,982

Eastleigh

53,466

Eden

18,411

Ellesmere Port & Neston

21,403

Elmbridge

86,732

Enfield

396,264

Epping Forest

74,281

Epsom & Ewell

38,845

Erewash

52,240

Exeter

154,018

Fareham

42,755

Fenland

62,686

Forest Heath

22,259

Forest of Dean

37,364

Fylde

64,326

Gateshead

107,915

Gedling

53,470

Gloucester

154,332

Gosport

44,039

Gravesham

83,870

Great Yarmouth

154,436

Greenwich

221,150

Guildford

78,131

Hackney

693,760

Halton

63,842

Hambleton

32,926

Hammersmith & Fulham

399,668

Harborough

16,278

Haringey

1,016,902

Harlow

43,906

Harrogate

99,827

Harrow

294,593

Hart

28,808

Hartlepool

79,211

Hastings

253,790

Havant

69,410

Havering

144,183

Herefordshire

140,827

Hertsmere

45,202

High Peak

45,515

Hillingdon

196,048

Hinckley & Bosworth

26,812

Horsham

49,429

Hounslow

355,691

Huntingdonshire

53,908

Hyndburn

90,811

Ipswich

94,393

Isle of Wight

191,335

Isles of Scilly

1,000

Islington

328,073

Kennet

26,443

Kensington & Chelsea

412,644

Kerrier

85,379

Kettering

44,679

Kings Lynn & West Norfolk

71,481

Kingston-upon-Hull

240,410

Kingston-upon-Thames

99,979

Kirklees

241,991

Knowsley

89,431

Lambeth

724,940

Lancaster

188,642

Leeds

699,583

Leicester

224,794

Lewes

88,358

Lewisham

486,032

Lichfield

12,856

Lincoln

80,847

Liverpool

729,908

Luton

255,173

Macclesfield

63,304

Maidstone

77,356

Maldon

82,178

Malvern Hills

90,506

Manchester

849,836

Mansfield

64,696

Medway Towns

471,227

Melton

13,192

Mendip

78,212

Merton

247,579

Mid Bedfordshire

35,898

Mid Devon

43,695

Mid Suffolk

24,651

Mid Sussex

56,924

Middlesbrough

119,409

Milton Keynes

132,848

Mole Valley

25,388

New Forest

78,074

Newark & Sherwood

50,198

Newbury

47,671

Newcastle-under-Lyme

31,941

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

274,106

Newham

929,151

North Cornwall

79,964

North Devon

122,918

North Dorset

24,523

North East Derbyshire

21,173

North East Lincolnshire

165,818

North Hertfordshire

68,722

North Kesteven

24,225

North Lincolnshire

85,744

North Norfolk

69,163

North Shropshire

23,118

North Somerset

218,118

North Tyneside

196,354

North Warwickshire

14,937

North West Leicester

19,954

North Wiltshire

41,075

Northampton

128,753

Norwich

108,027

Nottingham

256,377

Nuneaton & Bedworth

60,762

Oadby & Wigston

17,650

Oldham

134,438

Oswestry

17,239

Oxford

208,809

Pendle

77,473

Penwith

84,181

Peterborough

178,454

Plymouth

353,101

Poole

114,613

Portsmouth

277,431

Preston

91,279

Purbeck

29,875

Reading

224,887

Redbridge

515,490

Redcar & Cleveland

97,564

Redditch

21,978

Reigate & Banstead

59,334

Restormel

116,606

Ribble Valley

18,198

Richmondshire

14,555

Richmond-upon-Thames

143,147

Rochdale

172,956

Rochford

38,479

Rossendale

43,410

Rother

80,804

Rotherham

85,464

Rugby

32,675

Runnymede

37,455

Rushcliffe

41,776

Rushmoor

48,322

Rutland

8,547

Ryedale

18,609

Salford

334,841

Salisbury

84,745

Sandwell

113,078

Scarborough

135,144

Sedgefield

28,350

Sedgemoor

91,880

Sefton

337,337

Selby

28,490

Sevenoaks

43,848

Sheffield

220,625

Shepway

199,760

Shrewsbury & Atcham

46,066

Slough

157,522

Solihull

44,466

South Bedfordshire

43,756

South Bucks

14,092

South Cambridgeshire

38,483

South Derbyshire

44,462

South Gloucestershire

79,481

South Hams

69,760

South Holland

19,138

South Kesteven

54,456

South Lakeland

57,356

South Norfolk

34,296

South Northamptonshire

21,240

South Oxfordshire

82,978

South Ribble

22,310

South Shropshire

22,340

South Somerset

89,952

South Staffordshire

16,165

South Tyneside

140,946

Southampton

313,850

Southend-on-Sea

352,544

Southwark

390,913

Spelthorne

42,509

St Albans

43,228

St Edmundsbury

35,009

St Helens

85,141

Stafford

28,320

Staffordshire Moorlands

25,376

Stevenage

37,299

Stockport

187,923

Stockton-on-Tees

110,108

Stoke-on-Trent

123,889

Stratford-on-Avon

43,432

Stroud

56,710

Suffolk Coastal

65,700

Sunderland

192,844

Surrey Heath

31,136

Sutton

147,482

Swale

167,129

Swindon

103,024

Tameside

131,500

Tamworth

39,836

Tandridge

27,870

Taunton Deane

93,056

Teesdale

11,256

Teignbridge

108,165

Tendring

160,349

Test Valley

26,790

Tewkesbury

31,830

Thanet

334,488

The Wrekin

72,253

Three Rivers

31,937

Thurrock

89,406

Tonbridge & Malling

37,536

Torbay

309,901

Torridge

68,272

Tower Hamlets

195,453

Trafford

141,778

Tunbridge Wells

56,567

Tynedale

13,765

Uttlesford

26,955

Vale of White Horse

38,299

Vale Royal

28,699

Wakefield

99,088

Walsall

68,615

Waltham Forest

609,193

Wandsworth

525,578

Wansbeck

26,891

Warrington

56,937

Warwick

62,069

Watford

71,045

Waveney

187,248

Waverley

51,557

Wealdon

77,903

Wear Valley

29,496

Wellingborough

41,813

Welwyn Hatfield

42,186

West Devon

46,268

West Dorset

46,390

West Lancashire

47,120

West Lindsey

37,459

West Oxfordshire

51,536

West Somerset

42,829

West Wiltshire

89,235

Westminster

821,419

Weymouth & Portland

96,118

Wigan

97,552

Winchester

37,510

Windsor & Maidenhead

68,575

Wirral

378,323

Woking

45,431

Wokingham

51,439

Wolverhampton

113,643

Worcester

105,236

Worthing

147,475

Wychavon

29,142

Wycombe

55,609

Wyre

80,310

Wyre Forest

46,107

York

126,244

Scotland

Aberdeen City

74,345

Aberdeenshire

57,263

Angus

37,424

Argyll & Bute

64,595

Clackmannanshire

11,107

Dumfries & Galloway

71,883

Dundee City

83,795

East Ayrshire

31,942

East Dunbartonshire

21,049

East Lothian

47,700

East Renfrewshire

22,227

Edinburgh City

458,013

Falkirk

31,419

Fife

172,455

Glasgow City

480,497

Highland

68,488

Inverclyde

35,829

Midlothian

21,308

Moray

37,977

North Ayrshire

70,782

North Lanarkshire

43,614

Orkney

10,351

Perthshire & Kinross

91,813

Renfrewshire

51,205

Scottish Borders

26,623

Shetland

3,103

South Ayrshire

79,752

South Lanarkshire

64,483

Stirling

27,247

West Dunbartonshire

21,768

West Lothian

49,582

Western Isles

9,002

Wales

Blaenau Gwent

42,254

Bridgend

95,580

Caerphilly

105,947

Cardiff

260,606

Carmarthenshire

132,726

Ceredigion

67,738

Conwy

134,185

Denbighshire

131,804

Flintshire

59,401

Gwynedd

113,809

Isle of Anglesey

68,664

Merthyr Tydfil

34,155

Monmouthshire

37,490

Neath Port Talbot

75,375

Newport

99,827

Pembrokeshire

113,108

Powys

60,073

Rhondda, Cynon, Taff

140,028

Swansea

189,588

Torfaen

33,567

Vale of Glamorgan

122,731

Wrexham

62,974

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996 (S.I.1996/677). It sets out the basis for calculating the permitted totals of rebates or allowances for the years 1996/1997 and following for authorities granting rebates or allowances under Part VIII of the Social Security Administration Act 1992. The Order limits the amount by which the housing benefit payments may be increased on the exercise of the discretions provided by regulation 61(2) and (3) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I.1987/1971), and to war Pensioners and widows through modified schemes.

This Order does not impose a charge on businesses.