1998 No. 566
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.
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)