(1) This Order may be cited as the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1st April 2007.
(2) In this Order, “the 1998 Order” means the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998.
(3) This Order extends to England and Wales.
Specified date: 1 April 2007: see para (1) above.
This Order does not extend to Scotland: see para (3) above.
Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order (rent rebate limitation deductions) is amended in accordance with the Schedule to this Order.
Specified date: 1 April 2007: see art 1(1).
This Order does not extend to Scotland: see art 1(3).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
James Plaskitt
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
5th March 2007
We consent
Dave Watts
Alan Campbell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
7th March 2007
1
In paragraph 2 (England—liability to deduction), for sub-paragraphs (6) and (7) there shall be substituted—
“(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 1.1663.
(7) The annual factor for 2007–08 is 0.4.”.
2
In paragraph 3 (amount of deduction), for sub-paragraph (3) there shall be substituted—
“(3) The rebate proportion for each year commencing with 2007–08 is 0.77.”.
3
For Part 3 there shall be substituted—
“Part 3TABLE
| RELEVANT YEAR 2007–08 | |||
| Authority | Weekly rent limit | ||
| Adur | 66.34 | ||
| Alnwick | 51.35 | ||
| Arun | 70.81 | ||
| Ashfield | 48.78 | ||
| Ashford | 67.47 | ||
| Aylesbury Vale | 71.81 | ||
| Babergh | 63.94 | ||
| Barking and Dagenham | 65.19 | ||
| Barnet | 77.23 | ||
| Barnsley | 51.11 | ||
| Barrow in Furness | 57.17 | ||
| Basildon | 62.19 | ||
| Bassetlaw | 53.06 | ||
| Berwick upon Tweed | 49.72 | ||
| Birmingham | 59.44 | ||
| Blaby | 53.99 | ||
| Blackpool | 51.07 | ||
| Blyth Valley | 47.11 | ||
| Bolsover | 53.11 | ||
| Bolton | 51.89 | ||
| Bournemouth | 61.45 | ||
| Bracknell Forest | 70.86 | ||
| Braintree | 65.52 | ||
| Brent | 82.88 | ||
| Brentwood | 70.10 | ||
| Bridgnorth | 62.20 | ||
| Brighton and Hove | 61.62 | ||
| Bristol | 57.59 | ||
| Broxtowe | 62.82 | ||
| Bury | 56.57 | ||
| Cambridge | 69.60 | ||
| Camden | 86.42 | ||
| Cannock Chase | 56.54 | ||
| Canterbury | 66.10 | ||
| Caradon | 54.03 | ||
| Carrick | 52.16 | ||
| Castle Morpeth | 51.74 | ||
| Castle Point | 68.93 | ||
| Charnwood | 52.62 | ||
| Cheltenham | 61.66 | ||
| Chesterfield | 54.17 | ||
| Chester-le-Street | 51.30 | ||
| Chorley | 51.49 | ||
| City of London | 79.30 | ||
| City of York | 58.47 | ||
| Colchester | 63.33 | ||
| Corby | 54.45 | ||
| Crawley | 71.30 | ||
| Croydon | 81.52 | ||
| Dacorum | 71.95 | ||
| Darlington | 52.24 | ||
| Dartford | 65.86 | ||
| Daventry | 61.09 | ||
| Derby | 55.69 | ||
| Derwentside | 53.53 | ||
| Doncaster | 51.02 | ||
| Dover | 65.26 | ||
| Dudley | 59.17 | ||
| Durham | 52.36 | ||
| Ealing | 80.92 | ||
| Easington | 50.28 | ||
| East Devon | 57.42 | ||
| East Riding | 54.95 | ||
| Eastbourne | 57.87 | ||
| Ellesmere Port and Neston | 53.76 | ||
| Enfield | 74.47 | ||
| Epping Forest | 70.61 | ||
| Exeter | 54.40 | ||
| Fareham | 65.66 | ||
| Fenland | 60.63 | ||
| Gateshead | 53.74 | ||
| Gedling | 52.64 | ||
| Gloucester | 59.53 | ||
| Gosport | 63.20 | ||
| Gravesham | 66.11 | ||
| Great Yarmouth | 52.75 | ||
| Greenwich | 72.98 | ||
| Guildford | 78.31 | ||
| Hackney | 76.25 | ||
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 81.45 | ||
| Harborough | 59.59 | ||
| Haringey | 78.53 | ||
| Harlow | 65.55 | ||
| Harrogate | 61.25 | ||
| Harrow | 85.50 | ||
| Havering | 67.02 | ||
| High Peak | 54.56 | ||
| Hillingdon | 85.18 | ||
| Hinckley and Bosworth | 54.98 | ||
| Hounslow | 75.89 | ||
| Hyndburn | 53.39 | ||
| Ipswich | 58.20 | ||
| Isles of Scilly | 61.04 | ||
| Islington | 83.34 | ||
| Kensington and Chelsea | 92.15 | ||
| Kettering | 57.24 | ||
| Kings Lynn and West Norfolk | 56.71 | ||
| Kingston upon Hull | 53.10 | ||
| Kingston upon Thames | 84.77 | ||
| Kirklees | 53.16 | ||
| Lambeth | 76.96 | ||
| Lancaster | 55.86 | ||
| Leeds | 52.30 | ||
| Leicester | 54.17 | ||
| Lewes | 65.54 | ||
| Lewisham | 69.36 | ||
| Lincoln | 48.63 | ||
| Liverpool | 56.95 | ||
| Luton | 61.34 | ||
| Macclesfield | 60.27 | ||
| Manchester | 59.56 | ||
| Mansfield | 52.76 | ||
| Medway Towns | 60.29 | ||
| Melton | 53.97 | ||
| Merton | 76.86 | ||
| Mid Devon | 60.23 | ||
| Mid Suffolk | 60.57 | ||
| Milton Keynes | 60.05 | ||
| Mole Valley | 74.00 | ||
| New Forest | 71.94 | ||
| Newark and Sherwood | 55.05 | ||
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 53.10 | ||
| Newham | 68.72 | ||
| Northampton | 59.01 | ||
| North Cornwall | 55.35 | ||
| North East Derbyshire | 53.83 | ||
| North Kesteven | 55.36 | ||
| North Lincolnshire | 52.59 | ||
| North Norfolk | 57.79 | ||
| North Shropshire | 56.49 | ||
| North Somerset | 55.35 | ||
| North Tyneside | 51.97 | ||
| North Warwickshire | 59.29 | ||
| North West Leicestershire | 55.09 | ||
| Norwich | 56.32 | ||
| Nottingham | 52.99 | ||
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | 55.08 | ||
| Oadby and Wigston | 54.99 | ||
| Oldham | 52.00 | ||
| Oswestry | 56.34 | ||
| Oxford | 72.25 | ||
| Pendle | 51.98 | ||
| Plymouth | 49.18 | ||
| Poole | 62.61 | ||
| Portsmouth | 61.30 | ||
| Reading | 78.84 | ||
| Redbridge | 81.65 | ||
| Redditch | 56.76 | ||
| Ribble Valley | 52.40 | ||
| Richmondshire | 57.34 | ||
| Rochdale | 53.10 | ||
| Rochford | 64.37 | ||
| Rossendale | 52.44 | ||
| Rotherham | 50.42 | ||
| Rugby | 57.37 | ||
| Runnymede | 79.37 | ||
| Rutland | 59.33 | ||
| Salford | 56.99 | ||
| Salisbury | 68.31 | ||
| Sandwell | 61.31 | ||
| Sedgefield | 50.92 | ||
| Sedgemoor | 59.51 | ||
| Sefton | 58.64 | ||
| Selby | 57.27 | ||
| Sheffield | 50.50 | ||
| Shepway | 62.57 | ||
| Slough | 76.74 | ||
| Solihull | 60.15 | ||
| South Bedfordshire | 70.02 | ||
| South Cambridgeshire | 70.87 | ||
| South Derbyshire | 56.62 | ||
| South Gloucestershire | 63.23 | ||
| South Holland | 53.44 | ||
| South Kesteven | 54.81 | ||
| South Lakeland | 61.94 | ||
| South Northants | 67.67 | ||
| South Tyneside | 51.09 | ||
| Southampton | 60.64 | ||
| Southend-on-Sea | 63.69 | ||
| Southwark | 75.27 | ||
| St Albans | 76.45 | ||
| Stevenage | 71.50 | ||
| Stockport | 52.45 | ||
| Stockton on Tees | 55.76 | ||
| Stoke-on-Trent | 53.27 | ||
| Stroud | 61.56 | ||
| Sutton | 73.84 | ||
| Swindon | 58.21 | ||
| Tamworth | 58.67 | ||
| Tandridge | 69.79 | ||
| Taunton Deane | 58.89 | ||
| Teesdale | 53.05 | ||
| Tendring | 60.16 | ||
| Thanet | 61.82 | ||
| Three Rivers | 73.64 | ||
| Thurrock | 62.03 | ||
| Torridge | 53.10 | ||
| Tower Hamlets | 75.91 | ||
| Uttlesford | 71.92 | ||
| Waltham Forest | 71.25 | ||
| Wandsworth | 88.74 | ||
| Wansbeck | 46.96 | ||
| Warrington | 55.08 | ||
| Warwick | 65.14 | ||
| Watford | 72.72 | ||
| Waveney | 56.91 | ||
| Waverley | 77.60 | ||
| Wealden | 61.49 | ||
| Wear Valley | 52.16 | ||
| Wellingborough | 56.04 | ||
| Welwyn Hatfield | 71.78 | ||
| West Lancashire | 54.13 | ||
| Westminster | 91.55 | ||
| Wigan | 53.79 | ||
| Winchester | 74.09 | ||
| Woking | 77.96 | ||
| Wokingham | 76.94 | ||
| Wolverhampton | 54.93 | ||
| Wycombe | 77.77” | ||
4
For Part 5 there shall be substituted—
“Part 5TABLE
| RELEVANT YEAR 2007–08 | ||||
| (1) | (2) | |||
| Authority | Specified amount “O” | Guideline rent increase | ||
| Blaenau Gwent | 48.43 | 1.74 | ||
| Caerphilly | 54.16 | 2.62 | ||
| Cardiff | 60.25 | 3.20 | ||
| Carmarthenshire | 50.60 | 3.03 | ||
| Ceredigion | 54.08 | 2.48 | ||
| Conwy | 53.01 | 3.52 | ||
| Denbighshire | 49.26 | 2.73 | ||
| Flintshire | 51.55 | 3.13 | ||
| Gwynedd | 51.27 | 3.07 | ||
| Isle of Anglesey | 49.74 | 2.48 | ||
| Merthyr Tydfil | 46.99 | 3.22 | ||
| Monmouthshire | 58.36 | 2.67 | ||
| Neath Port Talbot | 49.62 | 2.21 | ||
| Newport | 55.55 | 2.91 | ||
| Pembrokeshire | 50.72 | 3.12 | ||
| Powys | 53.96 | 2.51 | ||
| Rhondda, Cynon, Taff | 49.87 | 2.29 | ||
| Swansea | 52.07 | 2.67 | ||
| Torfaen | 56.45 | 2.79 | ||
| Vale of Glamorgan | 57.99 | 2.67 | ||
| Wrexham | 49.42 | 3.26” | ||
Specified date: 1 April 2007: see art 1(1).
This Order does not extend to Scotland: see art 1(3).
This Order amends the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998 (“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 RPI figure, 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 2007–08 (paragraphs 1 and 3). It also substitutes a rebate proportion for that year for the purpose of calculating the amount of the deduction (paragraph 2).
With respect to authorities in Wales, the Schedule to this Order amends Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order to substitute the specified amount “O” and the guideline rent increase for the purposes of determining whether or not an authority is liable to a deduction from subsidy payable for 2007–08 (paragraph 4). The rebate proportion for 2007–08 for the purpose of calculating the amount of the deduction is unchanged.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities and voluntary bodies.
