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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 1129

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 2001

  Made 22nd March 2001 
  Laid before Parliament 27th March 2001 
  Coming into force 1st April 2001 

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the 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, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

    (2) In this Order "the Permitted Totals Order 1996" means the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996[3].

Amendment of article 3 of the Permitted Totals Order 1996
     2. In article 3 of the Permitted Totals Order 1996 (increase in housing benefit) for "100.1%" there shall be substituted "100.025%".

Substitution of Schedule to the Permitted Totals Order 1996
     3. For the Schedule to the Permitted Totals Order 1996 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

22nd March 2001



SCHEDULE
Article 3

To be substituted for the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996



SCHEDULE
Article 2


TOTALS FOR INCREASES ABOVE MAXIMUM RENT


Authority Permitted Total
     £
England     
Adur 11,073
Allerdale 14,001
Alnwick 2,832
Amber Valley 12,361
Arun 41,402
Ashfield 12,423
Ashford 12,112
Aylesbury Vale 13,412
Babergh 10,044
Barking 38,065
Barnet 133,375
Barnsley 31,155
Barrow in Furness 23,278
Basildon 21,576
Basingstoke and Deane 12,982
Bassetlaw 14,013
Bath and NE Somerset 31,322
Bedford 25,697
Berwick upon Tweed 3,833
Bexley 49,763
Birmingham 198,165
Blaby 4,376
Blackburn with Darwen 33,307
Blackpool 117,965
Blyth Valley 8,004
Bolsover 13,007
Bolton 46,138
Boston 5,138
Bournemouth 95,696
Bracknell Forest 13,822
Bradford 123,752
Braintree 14,434
Breckland 12,774
Brent 193,395
Brentwood 7,087
Bridgnorth 4,120
Brighton and Hove 180,857
Bristol 96,138
Broadland 8,928
Bromley 50,991
Bromsgrove 4,359
Broxbourne 13,260
Broxtowe 11,299
Burnley 25,828
Bury 29,838
Calderdale 28,108
Cambridge 16,167
Camden 132,750
Cannock Chase 6,657
Canterbury 33,324
Caradon 20,600
Carlisle 13,889
Carrick 24,764
Castle Morpeth 3,056
Castle Point 21,278
Charnwood 17,868
Chelmsford 14,838
Cheltenham 24,155
Cherwell 23,520
Chester 16,699
Chester le Street 5,524
Chesterfield 14,802
Chichester 15,367
Chiltern 4,842
Chorley 9,480
Christchurch 6,318
City of London 1,439
Colchester 28,238
Congleton 4,887
Copeland 12,193
Corby 12,013
Cotswold 9,367
Coventry 67,163
Craven 6,118
Crawley 7,786
Crewe and Nantwich 13,121
Croydon 145,919
Dacorum 13,429
Darlington 19,355
Dartford 15,715
Daventry 4,365
Derby 48,483
Derbyshire Dales 3,813
Derwentside 10,221
Doncaster 39,071
Dover 36,954
Dudley 21,784
Durham 5,937
Ealing 158,493
Easington 10,063
East Cambridgeshire 7,026
East Devon 18,050
East Dorset 6,974
East Hampshire 11,956
East Hertfordshire 10,036
East Lindsey 32,105
East Northamptonshire 8,204
East Riding of Yorkshire 57,413
East Staffordshire 12,968
Eastbourne 42,495
Eastleigh 12,311
Eden 5,083
Ellesmere Port and Neston 5,910
Elmbridge 22,072
Enfield 109,407
Epping Forest 20,508
Epsom and Ewell 9,885
Erewash 13,294
Exeter 35,462
Fareham 9,844
Fenland 17,307
Forest Heath 6,146
Forest of Dean 10,316
Fylde 17,760
Gateshead 27,463
Gedling 12,914
Gloucester 38,822
Gosport 11,207
Gravesham 21,343
Great Yarmouth 40,174
Greenwich 56,280
Guildford 17,990
Hackney 159,737
Halton 17,626
Hambleton 8,380
Hammersmith and Fulham 92,023
Harborough 4,066
Haringey 254,022
Harlow 10,481
Harrogate 24,943
Harrow 74,970
Hart 6,633
Hartlepool 20,158
Hastings 70,070
Havant 15,981
Havering 36,693
Herefordshire 31,035
Hertsmere 10,520
High Peak 11,583
Hillingdon 48,018
Hinckley and Bosworth 6,864
Horsham 11,381
Hounslow 81,898
Huntingdonshire 12,412
Hyndburn 23,110
Ipswich 23,448
Isle of Wight 48,692
Isles of Scilly 112
Islington 75,538
Kennet 6,553
Kensington and Chelsea 95,011
Kerrier 23,573
Kettering 11,336
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk 19,448
Kingston upon Hull 61,181
Kingston upon Thames 23,020
Kirklees 61,583
Knowsley 24,691
Lambeth 166,917
Lancaster 52,083
Leeds 161,079
Leicester 51,758
Lewes 24,395
Lewisham 118,483
Lichfield 3,550
Lincoln 20,575
Liverpool 201,524
Luton 63,742
Macclesfield 16,110
Maidstone 17,903
Maldon 18,921
Malvern Hills 7,025
Manchester 195,674
Mansfield 14,897
Medway 108,499
Melton 3,109
Mendip 21,594
Merton 57,194
Mid Bedfordshire 8,266
Mid Devon 12,064
Mid Suffolk 6,806
Mid Sussex 13,107
Middlesbrough 30,388
Milton Keynes 30,589
Mole Valley 6,461
New Forest 19,869
Newark and Sherwood 12,775
Newcastle under Lyme 8,317
Newcastle upon Tyne 75,679
Newham 236,456
North Cornwall 22,078
North Devon 33,937
North Dorset 5,647
North East Derby 5,846
North East Lincoln 42,198
North Hertfordshire 15,823
North Kesteven 6,418
North Lincolnshire 20,707
North Norfolk 19,096
North Shropshire 6,383
North Somerset 58,091
North Tyneside 49,049
North Warwickshire 3,801
North West Leicester 5,509
North Wiltshire 9,457
Northampton 32,163
Norwich 26,986
Nottingham 59,030
Nuneaton and Bedworth 14,606
Oadby and Wigston 4,630
Oldham 34,150
Oswestry 4,760
Oxford 48,078
Pendle 19,716
Penwith 23,242
Peterborough 41,089
Plymouth 95,680
Poole 29,167
Portsmouth 67,055
Preston 23,230
Purbeck 7,603
Reading 51,780
Redbridge 142,324
Redcar and Cleveland 22,464
Redditch 5,822
Reigate and Banstead 13,661
Restormel 32,194
Ribble Valley 5,025
Richmond upon Thames 34,918
Richmondshire 4,019
Rochdale 43,229
Rochford 10,624
Rossendale 11,986
Rother 22,310
Rotherham 23,596
Rugby 7,523
Runnymede 9,170
Rushcliffe 9,619
Rushmoor 11,126
Rutland 1,986
Ryedale 5,138
Salford 77,097
Salisbury 19,512
Sandwell 31,220
Scarborough 37,313
Sedgefield 7,215
Sedgemoor 21,337
Sefton 84,267
Selby 6,559
Sevenoaks 10,096
Sheffield 52,222
Shepway 51,579
Shrewsbury and Atcham 12,479
Slough 36,269
Solihull 11,316
South Bedfordshire 10,573
South Bucks 3,586
South Cambridgeshire 8,860
South Derbyshire 11,106
South Gloucestershire 20,227
South Hams 19,260
South Holland 5,045
South Kesteven 13,603
South Lakeland 15,835
South Norfolk 9,469
South Northants 5,306
South Oxfordshire 19,106
South Ribble 6,160
South Shropshire 6,168
South Somerset 22,317
South Staffordshire 4,463
South Tyneside 32,453
Southampton 73,593
Southend on Sea 97,336
Southwark 90,007
Spelthorne 10,818
St Albans 9,953
St Edmundsbury 8,585
St Helens 23,507
Stafford 7,452
Staffordshire Moorlands 7,006
Stevenage 9,376
Stockport 51,884
Stockton on Tees 28,021
Stoke on Trent 34,205
Stratford on Avon 11,053
Stroud 14,432
Suffolk Coastal 17,852
Sunderland 53,243
Surrey Heath 7,169
Sutton 34,929
Swale 41,749
Swindon 23,721
Tameside 36,307
Tamworth 9,172
Tandridge 7,092
Taunton Deane 21,426
Teesdale 2,865
Teignbridge 29,864
Telford and Wrekin 18,049
Tendring 44,271
Test Valley 6,818
Tewkesbury 8,100
Thanet 88,716
Three Rivers 8,128
Thurrock 24,684
Tonbridge and Malling 9,546
Torbay 85,563
Torridge 18,849
Tower Hamlets 45,003
Trafford 35,417
Tunbridge Wells 14,206
Tynedale 3,800
Uttlesford 6,206
Vale of White Horse 9,747
Vale Royal 7,303
Wakefield 27,358
Walsall 18,945
Waltham Forest 158,176
Wandsworth 121,014
Wansbeck 6,844
Warrington 13,911
Warwick 15,350
Watford 16,358
Waveney 51,698
Waverley 13,121
Wealdon 21,509
Wear Valley 7,507
Wellingborough 10,445
Welwyn Hatfield 9,713
West Berkshire 10,976
West Devon 12,775
West Dorset 11,805
West Lancashire 13,010
West Lindsey 9,532
West Oxfordshire 11,866
West Somerset 10,899
West Wiltshire 20,797
Westminster 189,131
Weymouth and Portland 23,141
Wigan 26,933
Winchester 8,637
Windsor and Maidenhead 17,452
Wirral 104,453
Woking 10,638
Wokingham 11,843
Wolverhampton 28,921
Worcester 24,231
Worthing 33,956
Wychavon 6,710
Wycombe 12,804
Wyre 22,173
Wyre Forest 11,956
York 29,336
Scotland     
Aberdeen 17,118
Aberdeenshire 15,810
Angus 10,333
Argyll and Bute 17,435
Comhairle Nan Eilean Sair 2,249
Clackmannanshire 3,067
Dumfries and Galloway 19,846
Dundee 23,135
East Ayrshire 8,128
East Dunbartonshire 5,812
East Lothian 12,140
East Renfrewshire 5,656
Edinburgh 116,558
Falkirk 8,674
Fife 43,080
Glasgow 122,279
Highland 18,909
Inverclyde 9,892
Midlothian 5,423
Moray 9,487
North Ayrshire 17,642
North Lanarkshire 12,042
Orkney 2,857
Perth and Kinross 21,140
Renfrewshire 14,138
Scottish Borders 7,350
Shetland 775
South Ayrshire 22,019
South Lanarkshire 17,803
Stirling 7,290
West Dunbartonshire 5,438
West Lothian 12,617
Wales     
Blaenau Gwent 10,753
Bridgend 25,789
Caerphilly 24,394
Cardiff 60,004
Carmarthenshire 32,572
Ceredigion 18,702
Conwy 37,048
Denbighshire 30,347
Flintshire 16,400
Gwynedd 31,422
Isle of Anglesey 18,958
Merthyr Tydfil 9,430
Monmouthshire 9,465
Neath and Port Talbot 20,810
Newport 22,985
Pembrokeshire 26,943
Powys 16,586
Rhondda Cynon Taff 38,661
Swansea 52,344
Torfaen 7,729
Vale of Glamorgan 30,658
Wrexham 14,500


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.

Notes:

 [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).back

[2] See section 176(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).back

[3] S.I. 1996/677; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1998/566 and 2000/533.back


ISBN 0 11 029099 2


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 27 March 2001

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