# The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 2001 S.I. 2001/1129 · made 22 March 2001 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). Made under: Social Security Administration Act 1992 (Section 134, Section 189) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-permitted-totals-amendment-order-2001/pdf/uksi_20011129_en.pdf ## Introductory text SOCIAL SECURITY 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 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, commencement and interpretation (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. ## 2 Amendment of article 3 of the Permitted Totals Order 1996 In article 3 of the Permitted Totals Order 1996 (increase in housing benefit) for “100.1%” there shall be substituted “100.025%”. ## 3 Substitution of Schedule to the Permitted Totals Order 1996 For the Schedule to the 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 22nd March 2001 ## To be substituted for the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996 ## 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. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1129 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-permitted-totals-amendment-order-2001 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.