Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 533

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 2000

Made

1st March 2000

Laid before Parliament

8th March 2000

Coming into force

1st April 2000

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 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 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

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

1st March 2000

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	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"

Explanatory Note

(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.

(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) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).

(3)

S.I. 1996/677; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/2326, S.I. 1998/566 and S.I. 1999/642.

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