{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-permitted-totals-amendment-order-1998/schedule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-permitted-totals-amendment-order-1998/schedule-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/566",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-permitted-totals-amendment-order-1998",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "TOTALS FOR INCREASES ABOVE MAXIMUM RENT",
  "text": "Authority\nPermitted total\n£\nEngland\nAdur\n43,510\nAllerdale\n50,711\nAlnwick\n10,257\nAmber Valley\n48,572\nArun\n162,688\nAshfield\n49,905\nAshford\n44,675\nAylesbury Vale\n58,249\nBabergh\n39,466\nBarking & Dagenham\n137,870\nBarnet\n532,789\nBarnsley\n112,840\nBarrow-in-Furness\n84,311\nBasildon\n88,461\nBasingstoke\n56,385\nBassetlaw\n54,314\nBath & North East Somerset\n123,079\nBedford\n95,157\nBerwick-upon-Tweed\n13,883\nBexley\n195,543\nBirmingham\n860,662\nBlaby\n19,006\nBlackburn\n120,638\nBlackpool\n427,261\nBlyth Valley\n28,991\nBolsover\n51,111\nBolton\n169,215\nBoston\n22,315\nBournemouth\n415,617\nBracknell Forest\n60,030\nBradford\n470,010\nBraintree\n60,177\nBreckland\n46,267\nBrent\n782,498\nBrentwood\n30,318\nBridgnorth\n14,922\nBrighton & Hove\n725,163\nBristol\n401,292\nBroadland\n32,336\nBromley\n205,873\nBromsgrove\n15,790\nBroxbourne\n55,649\nBroxtowe\n45,383\nBurnley\n93,547\nBury\n112,407\nCalderdale\n110,450\nCambridge\n70,215\nCamden\n576,552\nCannock Chase\n24,110\nCanterbury\n136,117\nCaradon\n74,609\nCarlisle\n59,003\nCarrick\n89,695\nCastle Morpeth\n11,068\nCastle Point\n77,066\nCharnwood\n71,528\nChelmsford\n59,398\nCheltenham\n103,348\nCherwell\n102,154\nChester\n65,619\nChester-le-Street\n21,707\nChesterfield\n58,165\nChichester\n64,695\nChiltern\n19,026\nChorley\n34,334\nChristchurch\n24,829\nCity of London\n5,215\nColchester\n110,960\nCongleton\n19,203\nCopeland\n45,703\nCorby\n48,091\nCotswold\n40,684\nCoventry\n290,561\nCraven\n24,041\nCrawley\n33,815\nCrewe & Nantwich\n47,525\nCroydon\n584,145\nDacorum\n58,327\nDarlington\n84,059\nDartford\n63,275\nDaventry\n15,811\nDerby\n178,971\nDerbyshire Dales\n14,983\nDerwentside\n40,160\nDoncaster\n153,528\nDover\n145,213\nDudley\n78,900\nDurham City\n23,699\nEaling\n688,358\nEasington\n39,543\nEast Cambridgeshire\n26,970\nEast Devon\n78,394\nEast Dorset\n27,403\nEast Hampshire\n46,981\nEast Hertfordshire\n43,330\nEast Lindsey\n116,281\nEast Northamptonshire\n29,716\nEast Riding of Yorkshire\n207,949\nEast Staffordshire\n46,968\nEastbourne\n166,982\nEastleigh\n53,466\nEden\n18,411\nEllesmere Port & Neston\n21,403\nElmbridge\n86,732\nEnfield\n396,264\nEpping Forest\n74,281\nEpsom & Ewell\n38,845\nErewash\n52,240\nExeter\n154,018\nFareham\n42,755\nFenland\n62,686\nForest Heath\n22,259\nForest of Dean\n37,364\nFylde\n64,326\nGateshead\n107,915\nGedling\n53,470\nGloucester\n154,332\nGosport\n44,039\nGravesham\n83,870\nGreat Yarmouth\n154,436\nGreenwich\n221,150\nGuildford\n78,131\nHackney\n693,760\nHalton\n63,842\nHambleton\n32,926\nHammersmith & Fulham\n399,668\nHarborough\n16,278\nHaringey\n1,016,902\nHarlow\n43,906\nHarrogate\n99,827\nHarrow\n294,593\nHart\n28,808\nHartlepool\n79,211\nHastings\n253,790\nHavant\n69,410\nHavering\n144,183\nHerefordshire\n140,827\nHertsmere\n45,202\nHigh Peak\n45,515\nHillingdon\n196,048\nHinckley & Bosworth\n26,812\nHorsham\n49,429\nHounslow\n355,691\nHuntingdonshire\n53,908\nHyndburn\n90,811\nIpswich\n94,393\nIsle of Wight\n191,335\nIsles of Scilly\n1,000\nIslington\n328,073\nKennet\n26,443\nKensington & Chelsea\n412,644\nKerrier\n85,379\nKettering\n44,679\nKings Lynn & West Norfolk\n71,481\nKingston-upon-Hull\n240,410\nKingston-upon-Thames\n99,979\nKirklees\n241,991\nKnowsley\n89,431\nLambeth\n724,940\nLancaster\n188,642\nLeeds\n699,583\nLeicester\n224,794\nLewes\n88,358\nLewisham\n486,032\nLichfield\n12,856\nLincoln\n80,847\nLiverpool\n729,908\nLuton\n255,173\nMacclesfield\n63,304\nMaidstone\n77,356\nMaldon\n82,178\nMalvern Hills\n90,506\nManchester\n849,836\nMansfield\n64,696\nMedway Towns\n471,227\nMelton\n13,192\nMendip\n78,212\nMerton\n247,579\nMid Bedfordshire\n35,898\nMid Devon\n43,695\nMid Suffolk\n24,651\nMid Sussex\n56,924\nMiddlesbrough\n119,409\nMilton Keynes\n132,848\nMole Valley\n25,388\nNew Forest\n78,074\nNewark & Sherwood\n50,198\nNewbury\n47,671\nNewcastle-under-Lyme\n31,941\nNewcastle-upon-Tyne\n274,106\nNewham\n929,151\nNorth Cornwall\n79,964\nNorth Devon\n122,918\nNorth Dorset\n24,523\nNorth East Derbyshire\n21,173\nNorth East Lincolnshire\n165,818\nNorth Hertfordshire\n68,722\nNorth Kesteven\n24,225\nNorth Lincolnshire\n85,744\nNorth Norfolk\n69,163\nNorth Shropshire\n23,118\nNorth Somerset\n218,118\nNorth Tyneside\n196,354\nNorth Warwickshire\n14,937\nNorth West Leicester\n19,954\nNorth Wiltshire\n41,075\nNorthampton\n128,753\nNorwich\n108,027\nNottingham\n256,377\nNuneaton & Bedworth\n60,762\nOadby & Wigston\n17,650\nOldham\n134,438\nOswestry\n17,239\nOxford\n208,809\nPendle\n77,473\nPenwith\n84,181\nPeterborough\n178,454\nPlymouth\n353,101\nPoole\n114,613\nPortsmouth\n277,431\nPreston\n91,279\nPurbeck\n29,875\nReading\n224,887\nRedbridge\n515,490\nRedcar & Cleveland\n97,564\nRedditch\n21,978\nReigate & Banstead\n59,334\nRestormel\n116,606\nRibble Valley\n18,198\nRichmondshire\n14,555\nRichmond-upon-Thames\n143,147\nRochdale\n172,956\nRochford\n38,479\nRossendale\n43,410\nRother\n80,804\nRotherham\n85,464\nRugby\n32,675\nRunnymede\n37,455\nRushcliffe\n41,776\nRushmoor\n48,322\nRutland\n8,547\nRyedale\n18,609\nSalford\n334,841\nSalisbury\n84,745\nSandwell\n113,078\nScarborough\n135,144\nSedgefield\n28,350\nSedgemoor\n91,880\nSefton\n337,337\nSelby\n28,490\nSevenoaks\n43,848\nSheffield\n220,625\nShepway\n199,760\nShrewsbury & Atcham\n46,066\nSlough\n157,522\nSolihull\n44,466\nSouth Bedfordshire\n43,756\nSouth Bucks\n14,092\nSouth Cambridgeshire\n38,483\nSouth Derbyshire\n44,462\nSouth Gloucestershire\n79,481\nSouth Hams\n69,760\nSouth Holland\n19,138\nSouth Kesteven\n54,456\nSouth Lakeland\n57,356\nSouth Norfolk\n34,296\nSouth Northamptonshire\n21,240\nSouth Oxfordshire\n82,978\nSouth Ribble\n22,310\nSouth Shropshire\n22,340\nSouth Somerset\n89,952\nSouth Staffordshire\n16,165\nSouth Tyneside\n140,946\nSouthampton\n313,850\nSouthend-on-Sea\n352,544\nSouthwark\n390,913\nSpelthorne\n42,509\nSt Albans\n43,228\nSt Edmundsbury\n35,009\nSt Helens\n85,141\nStafford\n28,320\nStaffordshire Moorlands\n25,376\nStevenage\n37,299\nStockport\n187,923\nStockton-on-Tees\n110,108\nStoke-on-Trent\n123,889\nStratford-on-Avon\n43,432\nStroud\n56,710\nSuffolk Coastal\n65,700\nSunderland\n192,844\nSurrey Heath\n31,136\nSutton\n147,482\nSwale\n167,129\nSwindon\n103,024\nTameside\n131,500\nTamworth\n39,836\nTandridge\n27,870\nTaunton Deane\n93,056\nTeesdale\n11,256\nTeignbridge\n108,165\nTendring\n160,349\nTest Valley\n26,790\nTewkesbury\n31,830\nThanet\n334,488\nThe Wrekin\n72,253\nThree Rivers\n31,937\nThurrock\n89,406\nTonbridge & Malling\n37,536\nTorbay\n309,901\nTorridge\n68,272\nTower Hamlets\n195,453\nTrafford\n141,778\nTunbridge Wells\n56,567\nTynedale\n13,765\nUttlesford\n26,955\nVale of White Horse\n38,299\nVale Royal\n28,699\nWakefield\n99,088\nWalsall\n68,615\nWaltham Forest\n609,193\nWandsworth\n525,578\nWansbeck\n26,891\nWarrington\n56,937\nWarwick\n62,069\nWatford\n71,045\nWaveney\n187,248\nWaverley\n51,557\nWealdon\n77,903\nWear Valley\n29,496\nWellingborough\n41,813\nWelwyn Hatfield\n42,186\nWest Devon\n46,268\nWest Dorset\n46,390\nWest Lancashire\n47,120\nWest Lindsey\n37,459\nWest Oxfordshire\n51,536\nWest Somerset\n42,829\nWest Wiltshire\n89,235\nWestminster\n821,419\nWeymouth & Portland\n96,118\nWigan\n97,552\nWinchester\n37,510\nWindsor & Maidenhead\n68,575\nWirral\n378,323\nWoking\n45,431\nWokingham\n51,439\nWolverhampton\n113,643\nWorcester\n105,236\nWorthing\n147,475\nWychavon\n29,142\nWycombe\n55,609\nWyre\n80,310\nWyre Forest\n46,107\nYork\n126,244\nScotland\nAberdeen City\n74,345\nAberdeenshire\n57,263\nAngus\n37,424\nArgyll & Bute\n64,595\nClackmannanshire\n11,107\nDumfries & Galloway\n71,883\nDundee City\n83,795\nEast Ayrshire\n31,942\nEast Dunbartonshire\n21,049\nEast Lothian\n47,700\nEast Renfrewshire\n22,227\nEdinburgh City\n458,013\nFalkirk\n31,419\nFife\n172,455\nGlasgow City\n480,497\nHighland\n68,488\nInverclyde\n35,829\nMidlothian\n21,308\nMoray\n37,977\nNorth Ayrshire\n70,782\nNorth Lanarkshire\n43,614\nOrkney\n10,351\nPerthshire & Kinross\n91,813\nRenfrewshire\n51,205\nScottish Borders\n26,623\nShetland\n3,103\nSouth Ayrshire\n79,752\nSouth Lanarkshire\n64,483\nStirling\n27,247\nWest Dunbartonshire\n21,768\nWest Lothian\n49,582\nWestern Isles\n9,002\nWales\nBlaenau Gwent\n42,254\nBridgend\n95,580\nCaerphilly\n105,947\nCardiff\n260,606\nCarmarthenshire\n132,726\nCeredigion\n67,738\nConwy\n134,185\nDenbighshire\n131,804\nFlintshire\n59,401\nGwynedd\n113,809\nIsle of Anglesey\n68,664\nMerthyr Tydfil\n34,155\nMonmouthshire\n37,490\nNeath Port Talbot\n75,375\nNewport\n99,827\nPembrokeshire\n113,108\nPowys\n60,073\nRhondda, Cynon, Taff\n140,028\nSwansea\n189,588\nTorfaen\n33,567\nVale of Glamorgan\n122,731\nWrexham\n62,974",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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