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The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2006

As Enacted Cited authorities 13 Cited in Amendments 4 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2006/559
Year2006

2006 No. 559

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2006

Made 2nd March 2006

Laid before Parliament 9th March 2006

Coming into force 1st April 2006

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 140B, 140F(2) and 189(1), (4), (5) and (7) of the Social Security Administration Act 19921.

In accordance with section 189(8) of that Act he has sought the consent of the Treasury2. In accordance with section 176(1) of that Act he has consulted with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned3.

S-1 Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st April 2006.

(2) In this Order, “the 1998 Order” means the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 19984.

(3) This Order extends to England and Wales.

S-2 Amendment of the 1998 Order

Amendment of the 1998 Order

2. Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order (rent rebate limitation deductions) is amended in accordance with the Schedule to this Order.

James Plaskitt

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

2nd March 2006

Gillian Merron

Tom Watson

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

2nd March 2006

SCHEDULE

Article 2

AMENDMENTS TO SCHEDULE 4A TO THE 1998 ORDER

SCH-1.1

1. In paragraph 1 (interpretation), after the definition of “rent” insert—

““RPI figure” means the annual percentage change at September of the index of retail prices for the United Kingdom published by the Office for National Statistics,”

SCH-1.2

2. In paragraph 2 (England – liability to deduction)—

(a) for sub-paragraph (3), there shall be substituted—

SCH-1.3

“3 For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), the average weekly rent for a dwelling for the authority for the relevant year is calculated by dividing the total rent charged for all dwellings in the HRA in that year by the total number of weeks for which rent was charged for all dwellings in the HRA.”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (4)—

(i) for Step 1, there shall be substituted—

“Step 1

Find the average weekly service charge for a dwelling for the authority for the relevant year by dividing the total service charges imposed in respect of all dwellings in the HRA in that year by the total number of weeks for which service charges were imposed for all dwellings in the HRA.”;

(ii) for Step 2, there shall be substituted—

“Step 2

Find the average weekly service charge for a dwelling for the authority for the year 2001-02 by dividing the total service charges imposed in that year in respect of all dwellings that are both in the HRA in that year and in the relevant year by the total number of weeks for which service charges were imposed for all dwellings in the HRA in the relevant year.”;

(iii) in Step 3, for the words “GDP Deflator” there shall be substituted “RPI figure”; and

(iv) for Step 4, there shall be substituted—

“Step 4

Find the average weekly service charge for new services for a dwelling for the authority for the relevant year by dividing the total charges for new services imposed in that year by the total number of weeks in that year for which new service charges were imposed for all dwellings in the HRA.”; and

(c) for sub-paragraphs (6) and (7) there shall be substituted—

SCH-1.6

“6 The RPI figure for the period beginning with September 2001 and ending with September of the year prior to the relevant year is 1.1258.

SCH-1.7

7 The annual factor for 2006-07 is 0.5.”.

SCH-1.3

3. In paragraph 3 (amount of deduction), for sub-paragraph (3) there shall be substituted—

SCH-1.3

“3 The rebate proportion in England for each relevant year commencing with 2006-07 is 0.61”.

SCH-1.4

4. For Part 3 there shall be substituted—

“PART 3

WEEKLY RENT LIMITS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 2: AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND

TABLE

RELEVANT YEAR 2006-07

Authority

Weekly rent limit

Adur

£63.01

Alnwick

£48.73

Arun

£68.21

Ashfield

£45.88

Ashford

£64.74

Aylesbury Vale

£68.19

Babergh

£60.28

Barking and Dagenham

£60.77

Barnet

£73.17

Barnsley

£48.60

Barrow in Furness

£54.73

Basildon

£58.56

Bassetlaw

£50.29

Berwick upon Tweed

£46.48

Birmingham

£56.51

Blaby

£51.25

Blackpool

£48.21

Blyth Valley

£44.80

Bolsover

£50.51

Bolton

£49.36

Bournemouth

£58.68

Bracknell Forest

£67.47

Braintree

£61.68

Brent

£80.05

Brentwood

£66.56

Bridgnorth

£56.89

Brighton and Hove

£58.82

Bristol

£54.28

Broxbourne

£70.70

Broxtowe

£49.42

Bury

£53.82

Cambridge

£65.74

Camden

£81.33

Cannock Chase

£54.24

Canterbury

£62.87

Caradon

£51.84

Carrick

£49.90

Castle Morpeth

£48.92

Castle Point

£66.35

Charnwood

£49.98

Cheltenham

£59.09

Chester-le-Street

£48.75

Chesterfield

£51.68

Chorley

£48.77

City of London

£75.16

City of York

£55.47

Colchester

£60.17

Corby

£51.12

Crawley

£66.61

Croydon

£78.24

Dacorum

£67.18

Darlington

£49.35

Dartford

£63.22

Daventry

£57.96

Derby

£53.19

Derwentside

£51.06

Doncaster

£48.49

Dover

£61.53

Dudley

£56.26

Durham

£49.74

Ealing

£76.50

Easington

£48.58

East Devon

£54.50

East Riding

£52.16

Eastbourne

£55.13

Ellesmere Port and Neston

£51.22

Enfield

£70.85

Epping Forest

£66.87

Exeter

£51.62

Fareham

£62.16

Fenland

£57.71

Gateshead

£50.41

Gedling

£50.00

Gloucester

£56.94

Gosport

£60.44

Gravesham

£63.11

Great Yarmouth

£50.09

Greenwich

£68.79

Guildford

£73.41

Hackney

£73.39

Hammersmith and Fulham

£76.42

Harborough

£56.44

Haringey

£75.44

Harlow

£61.83

Harrogate

£58.90

Harrow

£82.16

Havering

£64.15

High Peak

£52.02

Hillingdon

£81.89

Hinckley and Bosworth

£52.30

Hounslow

£71.93

Hyndburn

£51.11

Ipswich

£54.85

Isles of Scilly

£58.95

Islington

£79.03

Kensington and Chelsea

£87.75

Kettering

£54.41

Kings Lynn and West Norfolk

£53.65

Kingston upon Hull

£50.00

Kingston upon Thames

£81.13

Kirklees

£50.88

Lambeth

£73.28

Lancaster

£52.87

Leeds

£49.66

Leicester

£51.65

Lewes

£61.80

Lewisham

£65.27

Lincoln

£45.74

Liverpool

£54.15

Luton

£58.33

Macclesfield

£56.98

Manchester

£57.90

Mansfield

£50.26

Medway Towns

£57.45

Melton

£50.85

Merton

£73.38

Mid Devon

£55.41

Mid Suffolk

£57.46

Milton Keynes

£56.27

Mole Valley

£70.42

New Forest

£67.86

Newark and Sherwood

£52.50

Newcastle upon Tyne

£50.73

Newham

£64.98

Northampton

£55.44

North Cornwall

£53.07

North East Derbyshire

£51.08

North Kesteven

£52.49

North Lincolnshire

£50.01

North Norfolk

£54.95

North Shropshire

£53.62

North Somerset

£63.98

North Tyneside

£49.39

North Warwickshire

£56.38

North West Leicestershire

£52.54

Norwich

£53.55

Nottingham

£50.23

Nuneaton and Bedworth

£52.10

Oadby and Wigston

£52.22

Oldham

£49.33

Oswestry

£53.67

Oxford

£67.45

Pendle

£49.62

Plymouth

£46.71

Poole

£59.36

Portsmouth

£57.74

Reading

£75.25

Redbridge

£79.06

Redditch

£53.73

Ribble Valley

£50.37

Richmondshire

£54.49

Rochdale

£50.55

Rochford

£61.03

Rossendale

£49.86

Rotherham

£48.08

Rugby

£56.75

Runnymede

£75.01

Rutland

£57.31

Salford

£54.42

Salisbury

£65.61

Sandwell

£58.45

Sedgefield

£47.95

Sedgemoor

£57.18

Sefton

£55.97

Selby

£54.71

Sheffield

£47.83

Shepway

£59.35

Slough

£71.71

Solihull

£57.15

South Bedfordshire

£65.72

South Cambridgeshire

£66.75

South Derbyshire

£53.71

South Gloucestershire

£59.99

South Holland

£50.82

South Kesteven

£51.51

South Lakeland

£58.81

South Northants

£64.43

South Tyneside

£48.60

Southampton

£57.47

Southend-on-Sea

£60.83

Southwark

£71.15

St Albans

£72.29

Stafford

£51.00

Stevenage

£67.79

Stockport

£49.64

Stockton on Tees

£52.73

Stoke-on-Trent

£50.95

Stroud

£58.58

Sutton

£69.58

Swindon

£54.99

Tamworth

£56.15

Tandridge

£65.49

Taunton Deane

£55.88

Teesdale

£50.26

Tendring

£57.17

Thanet

£59.12

Three Rivers

£69.45

Thurrock

£58.98

Torridge

£50.06

Tower Hamlets

£70.92

Uttlesford

£68.23

Waltham Forest

£67.16

Wandsworth

£83.04

Wansbeck

£44.68

Warrington

£51.79

Warwick

£61.75

Watford

£68.84

Waveney

£54.17

Waverley

£71.87

Wealden

£58.24

Wear Valley

£49.54

Wellingborough

£52.87

Welwyn Hatfield

£67.40

West Lancashire

£52.51

Westminster

£86.61

Wigan

£50.84

Winchester

£69.32

Woking

£75.54

Wokingham

£72.64

Wolverhampton

£52.28

Wycombe

£74.03”
SCH-1.5

5. In paragraph 5 (Wales – amount of deduction), for sub-paragraph (2) there shall be substituted—

SCH-1.2

“2 The rebate proportion for Wales for each relevant year commencing with 2006-07 is 0.66.”

SCH-1.6

6. For Part 5 there shall be substituted—

“PART 5

AMOUNTS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 4, PARAGRAPH 4: AUTHORITIES IN WALES

TABLE

RELEVANT YEAR 2006-07

Authority

(1)

(2)

Specified amount “O”

Guideline rent increase

Blaenau Gwent

47.12

1.31

Caerphilly

52.05

2.11

Cardiff

57.36

2.89

Carmarthenshire

48.24

2.36

Ceredigion

52.15

1.93

Conwy

50.20

2.81

Denbighshire

47.15

2.10

Flintshire

49.04

2.51

Gwynedd

48.80

2.47

Isle of Anglesey

47.72

2.02

Merthyr Tydfil

45.44

1.55

Monmouthshire

56.29

2.07

Neath Port Talbot

47.89

1.73

Newport

53.22

2.33

Pembrokeshire

48.42

2.46

Powys

51.49

2.50

Rhondda, Cynon, Taff

47.97

1.90

Swansea

49.95

2.12

Torfaen

54.25

2.20

Vale of Glamorgan

55.92

2.07

Wrexham

46.79

2.63”

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/562) (“the 1998 Order”), which provides for the calculation and payment of housing benefit subsidy to local authorities in England and Wales, in respect of rent rebates for dwellings within the authorities' Housing Revenue Accounts.

With respect to authorities in England, the Schedule to this Order amends Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order to substitute the GDP deflator, the annual factor and the weekly rent limit for the purposes of determining whether or not an authority is liable to a deduction from subsidy payable for 2006-07 (paragraphs 2 and 4). The RPI figure replaces the GDP Deflator as the measure of inflation. It substitutes a rebate proportion for that year for the purpose of calculating the amount of the deduction (paragraph 3). The manner for calculating a dwelling’s average...

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