2000 No. 533
The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 2000
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by section 134(12) and 189(1) and (3) to (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 19921 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned2, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement1
This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.
Substitution of Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 19962
For the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 19963 there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security
SCHEDULE
To be substituted for the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996
SCHEDULETOTALS FOR INCREASES ABOVE MAXIMUM RENT
Authority
Permitted total
£
England
Adur
44,293
Allerdale
56,005
Alnwick
11,330
Amber Valley
49,443
Arun
165,605
Ashfield
49,693
Ashford
48,448
Aylesbury Vale
53,648
Babergh
40,175
Barking
152,260
Barnet
533,498
Barnsley
124,620
Barrow in Furness
93,113
Basildon
86,303
Basingstoke and Deane
51,928
Bassetlaw
56,053
Bath and N E Somerset
125,290
Bedford
102,790
Berwick upon Tweed
15,333
Bexley
199,053
Birmingham
792,663
Blaby
17,503
Blackburn with Darwen
133,230
Blackpool
471,860
Blyth Valley
32,018
Bolsover
52,028
Bolton
184,550
Boston
20,553
Bournemouth
382,783
Bracknell Forest
55,288
Bradford
495,010
Braintree
57,735
Breckland
51,095
Brent
773,578
Brentwood
28,350
Bridgnorth
16,480
Brighton and Hove
723,428
Bristol
384,553
Broadland
35,710
Bromley
203,963
Bromsgrove
17,438
Broxbourne
53,040
Broxtowe
45,198
Burnley
103,313
Bury
119,353
Calderdale
112,433
Cambridge
64,668
Camden
531,003
Cannock Chase
26,628
Canterbury
133,295
Caradon
82,398
Carlisle
55,558
Carrick
99,058
Castle Morpeth
12,225
Castle Point
85,110
Charnwood
71,470
Chelmsford
59,350
Cheltenham
96,620
Cherwell
94,083
Chester
66,798
Chester le Street
22,098
Chesterfield
59,210
Chichester
61,465
Chiltern
19,365
Chorley
37,918
Christchurch
25,273
City of London
5,758
Colchester
112,953
Congleton
19,548
Copeland
48,773
Corby
48,053
Cotswold
37,470
Coventry
268,653
Craven
24,473
Crawley
31,145
Crewe and Nantwich
52,485
Croydon
583,678
Dacorum
53,718
Darlington
77,418
Dartford
62,860
Daventry
17,463
Derby
193,933
Derbyshire Dales
15,250
Derwentside
40,883
Doncaster
156,283
Dover
147,818
Dudley
87,138
Durham
23,748
Ealing
633,973
Easington
40,253
East Cambridgeshire
28,105
East Devon
72,200
East Dorset
27,895
East Hampshire
47,823
East Hertfordshire
40,145
East Lindsey
128,420
East Northamptonshire
32,818
East Riding of Yorkshire
229,653
East Staffordshire
51,870
Eastbourne
169,978
Eastleigh
49,243
Eden
20,333
Ellesmere Port and Neston
23,638
Elmbridge
88,290
Enfield
437,628
Epping Forest
82,035
Epsom and Ewell
39,540
Erewash
53,178
Exeter
141,848
Fareham
39,375
Fenland
69,230
Forest Heath
24,583
Forest of Dean
41,265
Fylde
71,040
Gateshead
109,850
Gedling
51,658
Gloucester
155,288
Gosport
44,828
Gravesham
85,375
Great Yarmouth
160,695
Greenwich
225,120
Guildford
71,960
Hackney
638,950
Halton
70,505
Hambleton
33,518
Hammersmith and Fulham
368,093
Harborough
16,265
Haringey
1,016,088
Harlow
41,923
Harrogate
99,773
Harrow
299,880
Hart
26,533
Hartlepool
80,633
Hastings
280,280
Havant
63,925
Havering
146,773
Herefordshire
124,140
Hertsmere
42,078
High Peak
46,333
Hillingdon
192,073
Hinckley and Bosworth
27,455
Horsham
45,525
Hounslow
327,590
Huntingdonshire
49,650
Hyndburn
92,440
Ipswich
93,795
Isle of Wight
194,770
Isles of Scilly
445
Islington
302,153
Kennet
26,213
Kensington and Chelsea
380,043
Kerrier
94,293
Kettering
45,345
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk
77,793
Kingston upon Hull
244,723
Kingston upon Thames
92,080
Kirklees
246,333
Knowsley
98,765
Lambeth
667,668
Lancaster
208,330
Leeds
644,315
Leicester
207,033
Lewes
97,580
Lewisham
473,933
Lichfield
14,198
Lincoln
82,298
Liverpool
806,095
Luton
254,970
Macclesfield
64,440
Maidstone
71,615
Maldon
75,685
Malvern Hills
28,100
Manchester
782,695
Mansfield
59,585
Medway
433,998
Melton
12,438
Mendip
86,375
Merton
228,775
Mid Bedfordshire
33,063
Mid Devon
48,255
Mid Suffolk
27,225
Mid Sussex
52,430
Middlesbrough
121,550
Milton Keynes
122,355
Mole Valley
25,843
New Forest
79,475
Newark and Sherwood
51,100
Newbury/W Berkshire
43,905
Newcastle under Lyme
33,270
Newcastle upon Tyne
302,715
Newham
945,823
North Cornwall
88,310
North Devon
135,750
North Dorset
22,588
North East Derby
23,383
North East Lincoln
168,793
North Hertfordshire
63,290
North Kesteven
25,673
North Lincolnshire
82,825
North Norfolk
76,385
North Shropshire
25,530
North Somerset
232,363
North Tyneside
196,198
North Warwickshire
15,205
North West Leicester
22,038
North Wiltshire
37,830
Northampton
128,650
Norwich
107,943
Nottingham
236,123
Nuneaton
58,425
Oadby and Wigston
18,520
Oldham
136,600
Oswestry
19,040
Oxford
192,313
Pendle
78,863
Penwith
92,970
Peterborough
164,355
Plymouth
382,720
Poole
116,668
Portsmouth
268,220
Preston
92,918
Purbeck
30,413
Reading
207,120
Redbridge
569,295
Redcar and Cleveland
89,855
Redditch
23,290
Reigate and Banstead
54,645
Restormel
128,778
Ribble Valley
20,100
Richmond upon Thames
139,673
Richmondshire
16,075
Rochdale
172,918
Rochford
42,495
Rossendale
47,943
Rother
89,240
Rotherham
94,385
Rugby
30,093
Runnymede
36,680
Rushcliffe
38,475
Rushmoor
44,505
Rutland
7,945
Ryedale
20,550
Salford
308,388
Salisbury
78,050
Sandwell
124,880
Scarborough
149,253
Sedgefield
28,858
Sedgemoor
85,350
Sefton
337,068
Selby
26,238
Sevenoaks
40,385
Sheffield
208,890
Shepway
206,315
Shrewsbury and Atcham
49,915
Slough
145,075
Solihull
45,265
South Bedfordshire
42,293
South Bucks
14,345
South Cambridgeshire
35,443
South Derbyshire
44,425
South Gloucestershire
80,908
South Hams
77,040
South Holland
20,180
South Kesteven
54,413
South Lakeland
63,340
South Norfolk
37,875
South Northants
21,223
South Oxfordshire
76,425
South Ribble
24,638
South Shropshire
24,673
South Somerset
89,268
South Staffordshire
17,853
South Tyneside
129,813
Southampton
294,373
Southend on Sea
389,343
Southwark
360,030
Spelthorne
43,273
St Albans
39,813
St Edmundsbury
34,340
St Helens
94,028
Stafford
29,810
Staffordshire Moorlands
28,025
Stevenage
37,505
Stockport
207,538
Stockton on Tees
112,083
Stoke on Trent
136,820
Stratford on Avon
44,210
Stroud
57,728
Suffolk Coastal
71,408
Sunderland
212,973
Surrey Heath
28,678
Sutton
139,718
Swale
166,995
Swindon
94,885
Tameside
145,228
Tamworth
36,688
Tandridge
28,370
Taunton Deane
85,705
Teesdale
11,460
Teignbridge
119,455
Telford and Wrekin
72,195
Tendring
177,085
Test Valley
27,270
Tewkesbury
32,400
Thanet
354,865
Three Rivers
32,513
Thurrock
98,738
Tonbridge and Malling
38,185
Torbay
342,250
Torridge
75,398
Tower Hamlets
180,013
Trafford
141,665
Tunbridge Wells
56,825
Tynedale
15,203
Uttlesford
24,825
Vale of White Horse
38,985
Vale Royal
29,213
Wakefield
109,430
Walsall
75,778
Waltham Forest
632,703
Wandsworth
484,058
Wansbeck
27,375
Warrington
55,643
Warwick
61,400
Watford
65,433
Waveney
206,793
Waverley
52,483
Wealden
86,035
Wear Valley
30,028
Wellingborough
41,780
Welwyn Hatfield
38,853
West Devon
51,098
West Dorset
47,220
West Lancashire
52,038
West Lindsey
38,128
West Oxfordshire
47,465
West Somerset
43,598
West Wiltshire
83,188
Westminster
756,525
Weymouth and Portland
92,563
Wigan
107,733
Winchester
34,548
Windsor and Maidenhead
69,808
Wirral
417,810
Woking
42,550
Wokingham
47,373
Wolverhampton
115,683
Worcester
96,923
Worthing
135,825
Wychavon
26,840
Wycombe
51,218
Wyre
88,693
Wyre Forest
47,823
York
117,343
Scotland
Aberdeen
68,473
Aberdeenshire
63,240
Angus
41,330
Argyll and Bute
69,740
Comhairle Nan Eilean Sair
8,995
Clackmannanshire
12,268
Dumfries and Galloway
79,385
Dundee
92,543
East Ayrshire
32,515
East Dunbartonshire
23,248
East Lothian
48,558
East Renfrewshire
22,625
Edinburgh
466,230
Falkirk
34,695
Fife
172,318
Glasgow
489,118
Highland
75,638
Inverclyde
39,570
Midlothian
21,693
Moray
37,948
North Ayrshire
70,568
North Lanarkshire
48,165
Orkney
11,430
Perth and Kinross
84,560
Renfrewshire
56,550
Scottish Borders
29,400
Shetland
3,100
South Ayrshire
88,078
South Lanarkshire
71,213
Stirling
29,160
West Dunbartonshire
21,750
West Lothian
50,470
Wales
Blaenau Gwent
43,013
Bridgend
103,158
Caerphilly
97,575
Cardiff
240,018
Carmarthenshire
130,288
Ceredigion
74,808
Conwy
148,193
Denbighshire
121,390
Flintshire
65,603
Gwynedd
125,688
Isle of Anglesey
75,830
Merthyr Tydfil
37,718
Monmouthshire
37,860
Neath and Port Talbot
83,243
Newport
91,940
Pembrokeshire
107,773
Powys
66,345
Rhondda Cynon Taff
154,645
Swansea
209,375
Torfaen
30,918
Vale of Glamorgan
122,633
Wrexham
58,000
(This note is not part of the Order)