The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment (No.2) Order 2008

Article 2

THE SCHEDULE AMENDMENTS TO SCHEDULE 4A TO THE 1998 ORDER

1.  In paragraph 2 of Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order (England – liability to deduction), for sub-paragraphs (6) and (7) substitute—

“(6) The RPI figure for the period beginning with September 2001 and ending with September of the year prior to the relevant year is 1.2124.

(7) The annual factor for 2008-09 is 0.3.”.

2.  For Part 3 substitute—

“PART 3 WEEKLY RENT LIMITS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 2: AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND

TABLE

RELEVANT YEAR 2008-09

Authority	Weekly rent limit
Adur	£70.12
Alnwick	£54.63
Arun	£73.85
Ashfield	£51.41
Ashford	£70.61
Babergh	£67.42
Barking and Dagenham	£68.78
Barnet	£81.49
Barnsley	£54.95
Barrow in Furness	£59.74
Basildon	£65.50
Bassetlaw	£55.79
Berwick upon Tweed	£52.50
Birmingham	£62.91
Blaby	£57.70
Blackpool	£53.71
Blyth Valley	£50.18
Bolsover	£58.09
Bolton	£55.42
Bournemouth	£64.34
Bracknell Forest	£76.67
Braintree	£69.74
Brent	£87.94
Brentwood	£73.57
Bridgnorth	£63.48
Brighton and Hove	£66.72
Bristol	£61.43
Broxtowe	£55.61
Bury	£59.44
Cambridge	£74.73
Camden	£92.04
Cannock Chase	£59.09
Canterbury	£69.39
Caradon	£56.46
Carrick	£54.78
Castle Morpeth	£54.36
Castle Point	£71.94
Charnwood	£56.00
Cheltenham	£64.44
Chesterfield	£58.50
Chester-le-Street	£54.45
Chorley	£51.34
City of London	£83.88
City of York	£61.37
Colchester	£67.04
Corby	£58.09
Crawley	£75.46
Croydon	£85.22
Dacorum	£78.06
Darlington	£54.83
Dartford	£69.61
Daventry	£66.26
Derby	£59.51
Doncaster	£54.48
Dover	£68.10
Dudley	£62.81
Durham	£55.09
Ealing	£83.58
Easington	£52.36
East Devon	£61.09
East Riding	£58.64
Eastbourne	£60.62
Ellesmere Port and Neston	£58.96
Enfield	£78.35
Epping Forest	£74.97
Exeter	£57.44
Fareham	£69.15
Fenland	£63.88
Gateshead	£56.71
Gedling	£56.13
Gloucester	£62.24
Gosport	£66.31
Gravesham	£69.76
Great Yarmouth	£56.22
Greenwich	£77.02
Guildford	£82.92
Hackney	£79.90
Hammersmith and Fulham	£87.19
Harborough	£62.68
Haringey	£82.71
Harlow	£69.25
Harrogate	£64.14
Harrow	£89.25
Havering	£71.94
High Peak	£57.23
Hillingdon	£88.24
Hinckley and Bosworth	£58.95
Hounslow	£79.89
Ipswich	£61.54
Islington	£88.42
Kensington and Chelsea	£98.23
Kettering	£61.17
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk	£61.11
Kingston upon Hull	£56.13
Kingston upon Thames	£88.75
Kirklees	£55.45
Lambeth	£82.12
Lancaster	£58.96
Leeds	£55.64
Leicester	£56.73
Lewes	£69.01
Lewisham	£73.33
Lincoln	£51.34
Liverpool	£60.40
Luton	£65.39
Manchester	£61.84
Mansfield	£55.84
Medway Towns	£63.61
Melton	£57.32
Merton	£81.58
Mid Devon	£61.12
Mid Suffolk	£63.59
Milton Keynes	£63.46
Mole Valley	£79.56
New Forest	£75.65
Newark and Sherwood	£58.83
Newcastle upon Tyne	£56.65
Newham	£72.75
North Cornwall	£57.83
North East Derbyshire	£58.42
North Kesteven	£57.31
North Shropshire	£60.65
North Tyneside	£56.07
North Warwickshire	£64.24
North West Leicestershire	£58.95
Northampton	£62.26
Norwich	£60.02
Nottingham	£56.43
Nuneaton and Bedworth	£58.64
Oadby and Wigston	£58.89
Oldham	£55.12
Oswestry	£60.05
Oxford City	£77.85
Plymouth	£51.63
Poole	£65.86
Portsmouth	£64.68
Reading	£82.49
Redbridge	£85.02
Redditch	£59.77
Ribble Valley	£56.15
Richmondshire	£60.13
Rochdale	£56.00
Rochford	£68.20
Rotherham	£54.87
Rugby	£64.11
Runnymede	£83.65
Rutland	£63.52
Salford	£59.74
Salisbury	£71.30
Sandwell	£64.20
Sedgefield	£53.84
Sedgemoor	£62.19
Selby	£60.57
Sheffield	£53.41
Shepway	£65.14
Slough	£80.32
Solihull	£63.27
South Bedfordshire	£74.36
South Cambridgeshire	£76.72
South Derbyshire	£60.13
South Holland	£56.78
South Kesteven	£58.24
South Lakeland	£66.16
South Northants	£73.02
South Tyneside	£55.03
Southampton	£64.28
Southend-on-Sea	£67.11
Southwark	£80.34
St Albans	£82.47
Stevenage	£75.31
Stockport	£56.04
Stockton on Tees	£59.59
Stoke-on-Trent	£55.82
Stroud	£64.53
Sutton	£78.58
Swindon	£61.86
Tamworth	£62.14
Tandridge	£73.60
Taunton Deane	£62.34
Tendring	£63.83
Thanet	£64.63
Three Rivers	£77.88
Thurrock	£64.99
Torridge	£55.91
Tower Hamlets	£80.85
Uttlesford	£75.94
Waltham Forest	£75.38
Wandsworth	£94.15
Wansbeck	£50.39
Warrington	£58.65
Warwick	£69.73
Watford	£80.05
Waveney	£60.19
Waverley	£82.29
Wealden	£64.86
Wear Valley	£54.82
Wellingborough	£60.12
Welwyn Hatfield	£77.82
West Lancashire	£58.33
Westminster	£96.08
Wigan	£57.65
Winchester	£76.24
Woking	£82.10
Wokingham	£83.06
Wolverhampton	£59.82
Wycombe	£81.88”

3.  In paragraph 4 (Wales – liability to deduction) in the definition of Q (average weekly rent for a dwelling for the authority for the relevant year), after “(see paragraph 2(3))” add “and (5)”.

4.  For Part 5 substitute—

“PART 5 AMOUNTS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 4, PARAGRAPH 4: AUTHORITIES IN WALES

TABLE

RELEVANT YEAR 2008-09

Authority	(1) Specified Amount “O”	(2) Guideline rent increase
Blaenau Gwent	50.17	2.04
Caerphilly	56.78	3.05
Cardiff	63.45	3.06
Carmarthenshire	53.63	3.26
Ceredigion	56.56	2.77
Conwy	56.53	3.87
Denbighshire	51.93	2.98
Flintshire	54.68	3.60
Gwynedd	54.34	3.46
Isle of Anglesey	52.22	2.74
Merthyr Tydfil	50.21	2.50
Monmouthshire	-	-
Neath Port Talbot	51.83	2.58
Newport	58.46	3.33
Pembrokeshire	53.69	3.39
Powys	56.47	2.77
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	-	-
Swansea	54.74	3.05
Torfaen	59.24	3.17
Vale of Glamorgan	60.66	2.97
Wrexham	52.68	3.75”