Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 642

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1999

Made

8th March 1999

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1999

Coming into force

1st April 1999

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 134(12) and 189(1) and (3) to (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned(2), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

Substitution of Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996

2. For the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996(3) 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 Eagle

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

8th March 1999

Article 2

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	45,765
Alerdale	53,338
Alnwick	10,790
Amber Valley	51,088
Arun	171,113
Ashfield	51,345
Ashford	46,140
Aylesbury Vale	55,430
Babergh	41,510
Barking (LB)	145,010
Barnet (LB)	551,238
Barnsley	118,685
Barrow in Furness	88,678
Basildon	89,173
Basingstoke	53,655
Bassetlaw	53,383
Bath & N E Somerset	129,455
Bedford	97,895
Berwick upon Tweed	14,603
Bexley (LB)	205,670
Birmingham	819,018
Blaby	18,085
Blackburn with Darwen	126,885
Blackpool	449,390
Blyth Valley	30,493
Bolsover	53,758
Bolton	175,763
Boston	21,235
Bournemouth	395,510
Bracknell	57,125
Bradford	471,438
Braintree	59,655
Breckland	48,663
Brent (LB)	799,300
Brentwood	29,293
Bridgnorth	15,695
Brighton & Hove	747,483
Bristol	397,340
Broadland	34,010
Bromley (LB)	210,745
Bromsgrove	16,608
Broxbourne	54,803
Broxtowe	46,700
Burnley	98,393
Bury	113,670
Calderdale	116,170
Cambridge	66,818
Camden (LB)	548,658
Cannock Chase	25,360
Canterbury	137,728
Caradon	78,475
Carlisle	57,405
Carrick	94,340
Castle Morpeth	11,643
Castle Point	81,058
Charnwood	68,068
Chelmsford	56,525
Cheltenham	99,833
Cherwell	97,210
Chester	69,018
Chester le Street	22,833
Chesterfield	61,178
Chichester	63,510
Chiltern	20,010
Chorley	36,113
Christchurch	26,113
City of London	5,483
Colchester	116,708
Congleton	20,198
Copeland	46,450
Corby	45,765
Cotswold	38,715
Coventry	277,585
Craven	25,288
Crawley	32,180
Crewe & Nantwich	49,985
Croydon (LB)	555,883
Dacorum	55,503
Darlington	79,993
Dartford	64,950
Daventry	16,630
Derby	184,698
Derbyshire Dales	15,758
Derwentside	42,243
Doncaster	161,480
Dover	152,733
Dudley	82,988
Durham	24,538
Ealing (LB)	655,053
Easington	41,590
East Cambridgeshire	26,768
East Devon	74,600
East Dorset	28,823
East Hampshire	49,413
East Hertfordshire	41,480
East Lindsey	122,305
East Northamptonshire	31,255
East Riding of Yorkshire	218,718
East Staffordshire	49,400
Eastbourne	175,630
Eastleigh	50,880
Eden	19,365
Ellesmere Port	22,513
Elmbridge	91,225
Enfield (LB)	416,788
Epping Forest	78,128
Epsom & Ewell	40,855
Erewash	54,945
Exeter	146,565
Fareham	40,685
Fenham	65,933
Forest Heath	23,413
Forest of Dean	39,300
Fylde	67,658
Gateshead	113,503
Gedling	53,375
Gloucester	147,893
Gosport	46,318
Gravesham	88,213
Great Yarmouth	153,043
Greenwich (LB)	232,605
Guildford	74,353
Hackney (LB)	660,195
Halton	67,148
Hambleton DC	34,633
Hammersmith (LB)	380,333
Harborough	15,490
Haringey (LB)	967,703
Harlow	43,318
Harrogate	103,090
Harrow (LB)	309,850
Hart	27,415
Hartlepool	83,313
Hastings	266,933
Havant	66,050
Havering (LB)	151,653
Herefordshire	118,228
Hertsmere	43,478
High Peak	47,873
Hillingdon (LB)	198,460
Hinckley & Bosworth	26,148
Horsham	47,038
Hounslow (LB)	338,483
Huntingdon	51,300
Hyndburn	95,513
Ipswich	96,913
Isle of Wight	201,245
Isles of Scilly	460
Islington (LB)	312,200
Kennet	27,085
Kensington & Chelsea	392,680
Kerrier	89,803
Kettering	43,185
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk	74,088
Kingston upon Thames	95,143
Kingston-upon-Hull	252,860
Kirklees	254,523
Knowsley	94,063
Lambeth (LB)	689,868
Lancaster	198,410
Leeds	665,738
Leicester	213,918
Lewes	92,933
Lewisham (LB)	489,690
Lichfield	13,523
Lincoln	85,035
Liverpool	767,710
Luton	242,828
Macclesfield	66,583
Maidstone	73,995
Maldon	78,203
Malvern Hills	29,035
Manchester	808,720
Mansfield	61,568
Medway Towns	448,428
Melton	12,850
Mendip	82,263
Merton (LB)	236,383
Mid Bedfordshire	34,163
Mid Devon	45,958
Mid Suffolk	25,928
Mid Sussex	54,173
Middlesbrough	125,593
Milton Keynes	126,423
Mole Valley	26,703
New Forest	82,118
Newark	52,800
Newcastle under Lyme	31,685
Newcastle upon Tyne	288,300
Newham (LB)	977,273
North Cornwall	84,105
North Devon	129,285
North Dorset	23,338
North East Derbyshire	22,270
North East Lincolnshire	174,405
North Hertfordshire	65,395
North Kesteven	24,450
North Lincolnshire	85,580
North Norfolk	72,748
North Shropshire	24,315
North Somerset	221,298
North Tyneside	186,855
North Warwickshire	15,710
North West Leicester	20,988
North Wiltshire	39,088
Northampton	122,525
Norwich	102,803
Nottingham	243,973
Nuneaton	60,368
Oadby & Wigston	17,638
Oldham	130,095
Oswestry	18,133
Oxford	198,708
Pendle	81,485
Penwith	88,543
Peterborough	169,820
Plymouth	364,495
Poole	120,548
Portsmouth	277,138
Preston	96,008
Purbeck	31,423
Reading	214,008
Redbridge (LB)	542,185
Redcar & Cleveland	92,843
Redditch	22,180
Reigate & Banstead	56,463
Restormel	122,645
Ribble Valley	19,143
Richmond upon Thames	144,318
Richmondshire DC	15,310
Rochdale	164,683
Rochford	40,473
Rossendale	45,660
Rother	84,990
Rotherham	89,890
Rugby	31,093
Runnymede	37,900
Rushcliffe	39,755
Rushmoor	45,985
Rutland	8,210
Ryedale	19,573
Salford	318,643
Salisbury	80,645
Sandwell	118,933
Scarborough BC	142,145
Sedgefield	29,818
Sedgemoor	88,188
Sefton	321,018
Selby	27,110
Sevenoaks	41,728
Sheffield	215,835
Shepway	196,490
Shrewsbury & Atcham	47,538
Slough	149,900
Solihull	46,770
South Bedfordshire	43,698
South Bucks	14,823
South Cambridgeshire	36,620
South Derbyshire	42,310
South Gloucestershire	83,598
South Hams	73,373
South Holland	19,220
South Kesteven	51,823
South Lakeland	60,325
South Norfolk	36,073
South Northants	20,213
South Oxfordshire	78,965
South Ribble	23,465
South Shropshire	23,498
South Somerset	92,235
South Staffordshire	17,003
South Tyneside	134,128
Southampton	304,160
Southend on Sea	370,803
Southwark (LB)	372,000
Spelthorne	44,713
St Albans	41,138
St Edmundsbury	35,483
St Helens	89,550
Stafford	28,390
Staffordshire Moorlands	26,690
Stevenage	38,753
Stockport	197,655
Stockton on Tees	115,810
Stoke on Trent	130,305
Stratford on Avon	45,680
Stroud	59,648
Suffolk Coastal	68,008
Sunderland	202,830
Surrey Heath	29,630
Sutton (LB)	144,363
Swale	159,043
Swindon	98,040
Tameside	138,313
Tamworth	37,908
Tandridge	29,313
Taunton Deane	88,555
Teesdale	11,840
Teignbridge	113,768
Telford and Wrekin	68,758
Tendring	168,653
Test Valley	28,178
Tewkesbury	33,478
Thanet	337,968
Three Rivers	33,593
Thurrock	94,035
Tonbridge & Malling	36,368
Torbay	325,953
Torridge	71,808
Tower Hamlets (LB)	185,998
Trafford	134,920
Tunbridge Wells	58,715
Tynedale	14,478
Uttlesford	25,650
Vale of White Horse	40,283
Vale Royal	30,185
Wakefield	104,220
Walsall	72,170
Waltham Forest (LB)	602,575
Wandsworth (LB)	500,153
Wansbeck	28,285
Warrington	57,493
Warwick	63,443
Watford	67,608
Waveney	196,945
Waverley	54,228
Wealden	81,938
Wear Valley	31,025
Wellingborough	39,790
Welwyn Hatfield	40,145
West Berkshire	45,365
West Devon	48,665
West Dorset	48,790
West Lancashire	49,560
West Lindsey	39,395
West Oxfordshire	49,043
West Somerset	45,048
West Wiltshire	85,953
Westminster	781,680
Weymouth & Portland	95,640
Wigan	102,603
Winchester	35,698
Windsor & Maidenhead	72,128
Wirral	397,915
Woking	43,965
Workingham	48,948
Wolverhampton	119,530
Worcester	100,145
Worthing	140,340
Wychavon	27,733
Wycombe	52,920
Wyre	84,470
Wyre Forest	45,545
York	121,245
Scotland
Aberdeen City	70,750
Aberdeenshire	60,228
Angus	39,363
Argyll and Bute	66,420
Clackmannanshire	11,683
Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar	8,568
Dumfries and Galloway	75,605
Dundee City	88,135
East Ayrshire	33,595
East Dunbartonshire	22,140
East Lothian	50,173
East Renfrewshire	23,378
Edinburgh City	481,733
Falkirk	33,043
Fife	164,113
Glasgow City	505,380
Highland	72,035
Inverclyde	37,685
Midlothian	22,413
Moray	36,140
North Ayrshire	72,915
North Lanarkshire	45,873
Orkney	10,885
Perthshire and Kinross	87,373
Renfrewshire	53,858
Scottish Borders	28,000
Shetland	2,953
South Ayrshire	83,883
South Lanarkshire	67,823
Stirling	27,773
West Dunbartonshire	20,715
West Lothian	52,148
Wales
Blaenau Gwent	44,443
Bridgend	98,245
Caerphilly	100,820
Cardiff	247,998
Carmarthenshire	134,620
Ceredigion	71,245
Conwy	141,135
Denbighshire	125,425
Flintshire	62,478
Gwynedd	119,703
Isle of Anglesey	72,220
Merthyr Tydfil	35,923
Monmouthshire	36,058
Neath Port Talbot	79,278
Newport	94,998
Pembrokeshire	111,355
Powys	63,185
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	147,280
Swansea	199,405
Torfaen	31,945
Vale of Glamorgan	116,793
Wrexham	59,928"

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

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

This Order does not impose a charge on businesses.

(1)

1992 c. 5; section 134(12) was substituted by section 121 of, and paragraph 1(8) of Schedule 12 to, the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52).

(2)

See section 176(1)(b) Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).

(3)

S.I. 1996/677; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/2326 and S.I. 1998/566.

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