2000 No. 533

SOCIAL SECURITY

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

Angela EagleParliamentary Under-Secretary of State,Department of Social Security

SCHEDULE

Article 2

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)

This Order amends the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996 (S.I.1996/677). This Order limits the amount by which housing benefit may be increased on the exercise of the discretion provided by regulation 61(2) and (3) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I.1987/1971).

This Order does not impose a charge on business.