2020 No. 976
The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2020
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 140B(1), (3), (4) and (4A), 140F(2) and 189(1), (4), (6) and (7) of the Social Security Administration Act 19921.
In accordance with section 189(8) of that Act2, the Secretary of State has obtained the consent of the Treasury.
In accordance with section 176(1) of that Act3, the Secretary of State has consulted with organisations appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of the authorities concerned.
Citation, commencement, application and interpretation1
1
This Order may be cited as the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2020 and comes into force on 31st October 2020.
2
Article 3 and Schedule 1 have effect for the purpose of determining subsidy payable for the relevant year beginning with 1st April 2019.
3
Articles 4 and 5 and Schedule 2 have effect for the purpose of determining subsidy payable for the relevant year beginning with 1st April 2020.
4
In this Order—
“the 1998 Order” means the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 19984;
“relevant year” means the period of a year, beginning with 1st April in any calendar year, in respect of which a claim for subsidy is made.
Amendment of the 1998 Order2
The 1998 Order is amended in accordance with articles 3 to 5.
The amount of an authority’s subsidy3
For Schedule 1 (sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy) substitute the Schedule 1 set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.
Rent rebate deductions from an authority’s subsidy4
1
For Article 20A substitute—
Deductions from subsidy for rebate for dwellings within the Housing Revenue Account: authorities in Wales20A
1
Paragraph (2) applies in relation to an authority in Wales.
2
Where paragraph 4 of Schedule 4A applies, the deduction from subsidy referred to in article 13(1) shall be calculated in accordance with paragraph 5 of that Schedule.
2
In Schedule 4A (rent rebate limitation deductions (housing revenue account dwellings)—
a
at the end of the heading insert “: authorities in Wales”;
b
in Part 1, omit the definitions of “Affordable Rent”, “Affordable rent dwelling”, “new service”, “relevant party”, “void dwelling” and “2001-02”;
c
omit Parts 2 and 3;
d
in Part 4, in paragraph 5, for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—
2
The rebate proportion for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) for each relevant year commencing with 2020–21 is 0.574.
e
for Part 5 (amounts for purposes of Part 4, paragraph 4: authorities in Wales), substitute the Part 5 set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.
Additional amount of subsidy: Verify Earnings and Pension Alerts Service5
In Schedule 1ZB (additional amount of subsidy: Verify Earnings and Pension Alerts Service) for paragraph 2 substitute—
Additional amount: relevant year beginning with 1st April 20202
The additional amount of subsidy for an authority for the relevant year beginning with 1st April 2020 is the amount specified for that authority in the Housing Benefit Circular HB S6/2020 published by the Department for Work and Pensions on 16th April 20205.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
We consent.
SCHEDULE 1Substitution of Schedule 1 to the 1998 Order
SCHEDULE 1Sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy
Relevant Year 2019-2020
Local authority
Administration subsidy (£)
England
Adur
206,898
Allerdale
305,238
Amber Valley
377,546
Arun
527,247
Ashfield
494,161
Ashford
413,337
Aylesbury Vale
516,257
Babergh
237,846
Barking and Dagenham
1,215,669
Barnet
1,803,193
Barnsley
940,202
Barrow-in-Furness
273,046
Basildon
694,542
Basingstoke and Deane
510,535
Bassetlaw
361,222
Bath and North East Somerset
496,533
Bedford
541,806
Bexley
853,215
Birmingham
5,779,268
Blaby
199,929
Blackburn with Darwen
577,588
Blackpool
968,413
Bolsover
297,821
Bolton
1,209,013
Boston
262,356
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
1,420,878
Bracknell Forest
364,979
Bradford
2,129,537
Braintree
438,879
Breckland
408,601
Brent
2,351,975
Brentwood
171,664
Brighton and Hove
1,258,967
Bristol
1,924,692
Broadland
268,900
Bromley
1,008,684
Bromsgrove
205,654
Broxbourne
363,443
Broxtowe
315,480
Burnley
409,009
Bury
665,461
Calderdale
806,854
Cambridge
417,717
Camden
1,710,202
Cannock Chase
353,266
Canterbury
489,320
Carlisle
361,887
Castle Point
244,687
Central Bedfordshire
705,647
Charnwood
412,301
Chelmsford
482,614
Cheltenham
333,491
Cherwell
395,083
Cheshire East
937,699
Cheshire West and Chester
965,597
Chesterfield
455,547
Chichester
358,205
Chiltern
214,174
Chorley
302,336
City of London
86,020
Colchester
588,257
Copeland
236,533
Corby
274,537
Cornwall
2,106,996
Cotswold
216,441
Coventry
1,413,800
Craven
134,451
Crawley
557,804
Croydon
1,790,970
Dacorum
577,108
Darlington
498,479
Dartford
324,096
Daventry
176,898
Derby
1,007,926
Derbyshire Dales
175,253
Doncaster
1,140,936
Dorset
1,068,403
Dover
419,368
Dudley
1,115,665
Durham
2,320,130
Ealing
1,980,123
East Cambridgeshire
231,926
East Devon
373,227
East Hampshire
267,351
East Hertfordshire
376,467
East Lindsey
557,484
East Northamptonshire
226,034
East Riding of Yorkshire
934,332
East Staffordshire
352,940
East Suffolk
746,197
Eastbourne
462,283
Eastleigh
294,338
Eden
119,288
Elmbridge
360,823
Enfield
2,264,143
Epping Forest
388,319
Epsom and Ewell
194,432
Erewash
351,192
Exeter
453,854
Fareham
246,508
Fenland
365,183
Folkestone and Hythe
455,152
Forest of Dean
239,150
Fylde
241,619
Gateshead
971,792
Gedling
352,410
Gloucester
487,695
Gosport
369,694
Gravesham
392,900
Great Yarmouth
440,993
Greenwich
1,782,999
Guildford
368,273
Hackney
2,708,397
Halton
548,589
Hambleton
214,079
Hammersmith and Fulham
1,206,204
Harborough
147,222
Haringey
1,988,435
Harlow
428,279
Harrogate
319,517
Harrow
1,032,393
Hart
162,355
Hartlepool
518,714
Hastings
474,687
Havant
379,447
Havering
840,177
Herefordshire
562,555
Hertsmere
381,302
High Peak
279,372
Hillingdon
1,270,018
Hinckley and Bosworth
226,725
Horsham
306,209
Hounslow
1,114,278
Huntingdonshire
463,123
Hyndburn
350,887
Ipswich
615,674
Isle of Wight
566,433
Isles of Scilly
9,233
Islington
1,847,550
Kensington and Chelsea
1,089,360
Kettering
309,847
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
487,604
Kingston upon Hull
1,625,235
Kingston upon Thames
554,636
Kirklees
1,474,341
Knowsley
855,441
Lambeth
2,403,732
Lancaster
418,576
Leeds
3,344,315
Leicester
1,592,076
Lewes
342,487
Lewisham
2,206,067
Lichfield
226,560
Lincoln
451,462
Liverpool
2,969,011
Luton
927,372
Maidstone
500,355
Maldon
167,817
Malvern Hills
219,923
Manchester
3,100,657
Mansfield
458,056
Medway
1,025,721
Melton
124,475
Mendip
308,197
Merton
749,470
Mid Devon
229,859
Mid Suffolk
219,518
Mid Sussex
311,627
Middlesbrough
939,409
Milton Keynes
1,144,065
Mole Valley
224,476
New Forest
445,140
Newark and Sherwood
347,691
Newcastle-under-Lyme
426,628
Newcastle upon Tyne
1,382,896
Newham
2,089,828
North Devon
334,817
North East Derbyshire
322,807
North East Lincolnshire
676,730
North Hertfordshire
404,637
North Kesteven
271,109
North Lincolnshire
546,684
North Norfolk
330,545
North Somerset
651,825
North Tyneside
894,608
North Warwickshire
192,611
North West Leicestershire
239,967
Northampton
855,836
Northumberland
1,160,622
Norwich
787,450
Nottingham
1,747,440
Nuneaton and Bedworth
444,983
Oadby and Wigston
126,917
Oldham
936,580
Oxford
568,005
Pendle
363,473
Peterborough
795,269
Plymouth
1,154,878
Portsmouth
1,171,811
Preston
568,200
Reading
708,189
Redbridge
1,107,367
Redcar and Cleveland
721,317
Redditch
286,372
Reigate and Banstead
403,964
Ribble Valley
118,663
Richmondshire
119,297
Richmond upon Thames
549,956
Rochdale
1,004,244
Rochford
186,975
Rossendale
261,138
Rother
267,336
Rotherham
1,096,263
Rugby
250,184
Runnymede
246,114
Rushcliffe
212,750
Rushmoor
371,584
Rutland
85,169
Ryedale
149,597
Salford
1,368,252
Sandwell
1,576,419
Scarborough
485,981
Sedgemoor
439,427
Sefton
1,073,390
Selby
218,465
Sevenoaks
312,514
Sheffield
2,452,822
Shropshire
826,925
Slough
683,176
Solihull
632,075
Somerset West and Taunton
465,825
South Buckinghamshire
159,201
South Cambridgeshire
325,697
South Derbyshire
243,814
South Gloucestershire
735,340
South Hams
250,072
South Holland
247,465
South Kesteven
382,554
South Lakeland
223,957
South Norfolk
318,044
South Northamptonshire
165,541
South Oxfordshire
290,599
South Ribble
277,009
South Somerset
469,381
South Staffordshire
264,918
South Tyneside
913,224
Southampton
1,079,520
Southend-on-Sea
770,274
Southwark
2,072,549
Spelthorne
312,287
St Albans
348,545
St Helens
749,095
Stafford
333,317
Staffordshire Moorlands
214,847
Stevenage
404,443
Stockport
904,249
Stockton-on-Tees
836,619
Stoke-on-Trent
1,173,365
Stratford-on-Avon
303,240
Stroud
284,887
Sunderland
1,518,187
Surrey Heath
202,467
Sutton
652,022
Swale
524,926
Swindon
645,358
Tameside
1,016,733
Tamworth
246,400
Tandridge
223,167
Teignbridge
407,440
Telford and Wrekin
828,293
Tendring
656,698
Test Valley
314,555
Tewkesbury
231,994
Thanet
680,465
Three Rivers
249,272
Thurrock
611,343
Tonbridge and Malling
364,706
Torbay
707,181
Torridge
215,585
Tower Hamlets
2,432,219
Trafford
664,890
Tunbridge Wells
346,772
Uttlesford
174,615
Vale of White Horse
281,191
Wakefield
1,457,725
Walsall
1,349,098
Waltham Forest
1,412,860
Wandsworth
1,718,920
Warrington
554,146
Warwick
356,711
Watford
371,919
Waverley
319,604
Wealden
342,527
Wellingborough
293,200
Welwyn Hatfield
419,192
West Berkshire
398,578
West Devon
175,861
West Lancashire
329,486
West Lindsey
326,374
West Oxfordshire
252,444
West Suffolk
487,856
Westminster
1,576,989
Wigan
1,132,575
Wiltshire
1,216,772
Winchester
310,820
Windsor and Maidenhead
366,082
Wirral
1,405,120
Woking
289,102
Wokingham
265,038
Wolverhampton
1,259,131
Worcester
380,865
Worthing
360,776
Wychavon
348,381
Wycombe
482,205
Wyre
411,692
Wyre Forest
403,794
York
492,790
Wales
Blaenau Gwent
383,178
Bridgend
574,042
Caerphilly
761,701
Cardiff
1,499,431
Carmarthenshire
662,649
Ceredigion
242,025
Conwy
449,939
Denbighshire
413,743
Flintshire
451,334
Gwynedd
423,421
Isle of Anglesey
281,547
Merthyr Tydfil
296,955
Monmouthshire
256,654
Neath Port Talbot
650,180
Newport
660,025
Pembrokeshire
466,056
Powys
401,933
Rhondda Cynon Taf
983,309
Swansea
969,755
Torfaen
410,363
Vale of Glamorgan
460,941
Wrexham
548,004
Scotland
Aberdeen
805,227
Aberdeenshire
655,940
Angus
403,636
Argyll and Bute
354,229
Clackmannanshire
249,356
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
112,851
Dumfries and Galloway
643,499
Dundee
907,889
East Ayrshire
564,199
East Dunbartonshire
252,492
East Lothian
311,193
East Renfrewshire
218,435
Edinburgh
1,948,929
Falkirk
630,471
Fife
1,449,877
Glasgow
4,278,442
Highland
718,186
Inverclyde
440,766
Midlothian
313,145
Moray
290,724
North Ayrshire
725,908
North Lanarkshire
1,585,915
Orkney
90,166
Perth and Kinross
473,214
Renfrewshire
898,406
Scottish Borders
472,617
Shetland
73,950
South Ayrshire
481,603
South Lanarkshire
1,226,105
Stirling
258,905
West Dunbartonshire
615,268
West Lothian
732,527.
SCHEDULE 2Substitution of Part 5 of Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order
PART 5AMOUNTS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 4, PARAGRAPH 4: AUTHORITIES IN WALES
Relevant Year 2020-2021
Local authority
(1) Specified amount “O”(£)
(2) Guideline rent increase “P” (£)
Caerphilly
95.77
4.38
Cardiff
107.42
4.82
Carmarthenshire
95.29
4.36
Denbighshire
93.07
4.42
Flintshire
96.54
4.53
Isle of Anglesey
92.20
4.48
Pembrokeshire
96.09
4.23
Powys
97.15
4.42
Swansea
94.25
4.48
Vale of Glamorgan
103.94
4.63
Wrexham
95.45
4.46.
(This note is not part of the Order)