{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1004",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Housing benefit amount",
  "text": "For the purposes of Part I, the housing benefit amount shall be calculated by applying the following formula—\nA×BC where—\nA is—\n(a) in the case of Scottish corporations, £1,130,105;\n(b) in the case of authorities other than Scottish corporations—\n(i) in England, £78,609,167;\n(ii) in Wales, £3,271,747;\n(iii) in Scotland, £10,259,051;\nB—\n(a) except where paragraph (b) below applies, in the case of an authority identified in column (1) of Schedule 10, is the aggregate of the amounts obtained by multiplying each figure prescribed in column (2)(a)(i) to (2)(b)(iv) of that Schedule for that authority by the figure appropriate to that category and authority prescribed in column (2)(a) or (b), as the case may be, of Schedule 11;\n(b) in the case of an authority identified in column (1) of Schedule 12, is the aggregate amount determined in accordance with paragraph (a) above further multiplied by the figure specified for that authority in column (2) of that Schedule; and\nC is, in the case of an authority referred to in—\n(a) sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of A, 5,234,697.80;\n(b) sub-paragraph (b)(i) of the definition of A, 835,889,667.52;\n(c) sub-paragraph (b)(ii) of the definition of A, 47,428,389.81;\n(d) sub-paragraph (b)(iii) of the definition of A, 88,284,678.16.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1004/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:16.506195+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}