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

S.I. 1999/642 · made 8 March 1999

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).

Made under: Social Security Administration Act 1992 (Section 134, Section 189)

## Introductory text

SOCIAL SECURITY
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 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned, hereby makes the following Order:

## 1 Citation and commencement

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

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

For the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996 there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

## Signature

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

## 

To be substituted for the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996
“SCHEDULE
TOTALS 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.

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