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(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 31st March 1998.
(2) In this Order “the Permitted Totals Order” means the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996.
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(1) In article 2 of the Permitted Totals Order (permitted total of benefit awarded in exercise of a discretion) the words following “housing benefit” shall be reimbursed as paragraph (a) of article 2 and after paragraph (a) there shall be added the following paragraphs—“
(b) for the year commencing on 1st April 1997 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amounts obtained by the calculations set out in articles 3 and 4 below; and
(c) for any year commencing on or after 1st April 1998 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amount obtained by the calculation in article 3 below and the amount specified in the Schedule to this Order.”.
(2) The Schedule to this Order shall be added as the Schedule to the Permitted Totals Order.
3 
In article 5 of the Permitted Totals Order for the words “the year commencing” there shall be substituted the words “any year commencing on or after”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Frank Field
Minister of State,
Department of Social Security
5th March 1998
SCHEDULE 1


Authority Permitted total
 £
England
Adur 43,510
Allerdale 50,711
Alnwick 10,257
Amber Valley 48,572
Arun 162,688
Ashfield 49,905
Ashford 44,675
Aylesbury Vale 58,249
Babergh 39,466
Barking & Dagenham 137,870
Barnet 532,789
Barnsley 112,840
Barrow-in-Furness 84,311
Basildon 88,461
Basingstoke 56,385
Bassetlaw 54,314
Bath & North East Somerset 123,079
Bedford 95,157
Berwick-upon-Tweed 13,883
Bexley 195,543
Birmingham 860,662
Blaby 19,006
Blackburn 120,638
Blackpool 427,261
Blyth Valley 28,991
Bolsover 51,111
Bolton 169,215
Boston 22,315
Bournemouth 415,617
Bracknell Forest 60,030
Bradford 470,010
Braintree 60,177
Breckland 46,267
Brent 782,498
Brentwood 30,318
Bridgnorth 14,922
Brighton & Hove 725,163
Bristol 401,292
Broadland 32,336
Bromley 205,873
Bromsgrove 15,790
Broxbourne 55,649
Broxtowe 45,383
Burnley 93,547
Bury 112,407
Calderdale 110,450
Cambridge 70,215
Camden 576,552
Cannock Chase 24,110
Canterbury 136,117
Caradon 74,609
Carlisle 59,003
Carrick 89,695
Castle Morpeth 11,068
Castle Point 77,066
Charnwood 71,528
Chelmsford 59,398
Cheltenham 103,348
Cherwell 102,154
Chester 65,619
Chester-le-Street 21,707
Chesterfield 58,165
Chichester 64,695
Chiltern 19,026
Chorley 34,334
Christchurch 24,829
City of London 5,215
Colchester 110,960
Congleton 19,203
Copeland 45,703
Corby 48,091
Cotswold 40,684
Coventry 290,561
Craven 24,041
Crawley 33,815
Crewe & Nantwich 47,525
Croydon 584,145
Dacorum 58,327
Darlington 84,059
Dartford 63,275
Daventry 15,811
Derby 178,971
Derbyshire Dales 14,983
Derwentside 40,160
Doncaster 153,528
Dover 145,213
Dudley 78,900
Durham City 23,699
Ealing 688,358
Easington 39,543
East Cambridgeshire 26,970
East Devon 78,394
East Dorset 27,403
East Hampshire 46,981
East Hertfordshire 43,330
East Lindsey 116,281
East Northamptonshire 29,716
East Riding of Yorkshire 207,949
East Staffordshire 46,968
Eastbourne 166,982
Eastleigh 53,466
Eden 18,411
Ellesmere Port & Neston 21,403
Elmbridge 86,732
Enfield 396,264
Epping Forest 74,281
Epsom & Ewell 38,845
Erewash 52,240
Exeter 154,018
Fareham 42,755
Fenland 62,686
Forest Heath 22,259
Forest of Dean 37,364
Fylde 64,326
Gateshead 107,915
Gedling 53,470
Gloucester 154,332
Gosport 44,039
Gravesham 83,870
Great Yarmouth 154,436
Greenwich 221,150
Guildford 78,131
Hackney 693,760
Halton 63,842
Hambleton 32,926
Hammersmith & Fulham 399,668
Harborough 16,278
Haringey 1,016,902
Harlow 43,906
Harrogate 99,827
Harrow 294,593
Hart 28,808
Hartlepool 79,211
Hastings 253,790
Havant 69,410
Havering 144,183
Herefordshire 140,827
Hertsmere 45,202
High Peak 45,515
Hillingdon 196,048
Hinckley & Bosworth 26,812
Horsham 49,429
Hounslow 355,691
Huntingdonshire 53,908
Hyndburn 90,811
Ipswich 94,393
Isle of Wight 191,335
Isles of Scilly 1,000
Islington 328,073
Kennet 26,443
Kensington & Chelsea 412,644
Kerrier 85,379
Kettering 44,679
Kings Lynn & West Norfolk 71,481
Kingston-upon-Hull 240,410
Kingston-upon-Thames 99,979
Kirklees 241,991
Knowsley 89,431
Lambeth 724,940
Lancaster 188,642
Leeds 699,583
Leicester 224,794
Lewes 88,358
Lewisham 486,032
Lichfield 12,856
Lincoln 80,847
Liverpool 729,908
Luton 255,173
Macclesfield 63,304
Maidstone 77,356
Maldon 82,178
Malvern Hills 90,506
Manchester 849,836
Mansfield 64,696
Medway Towns 471,227
Melton 13,192
Mendip 78,212
Merton 247,579
Mid Bedfordshire 35,898
Mid Devon 43,695
Mid Suffolk 24,651
Mid Sussex 56,924
Middlesbrough 119,409
Milton Keynes 132,848
Mole Valley 25,388
New Forest 78,074
Newark & Sherwood 50,198
Newbury 47,671
Newcastle-under-Lyme 31,941
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 274,106
Newham 929,151
North Cornwall 79,964
North Devon 122,918
North Dorset 24,523
North East Derbyshire 21,173
North East Lincolnshire 165,818
North Hertfordshire 68,722
North Kesteven 24,225
North Lincolnshire 85,744
North Norfolk 69,163
North Shropshire 23,118
North Somerset 218,118
North Tyneside 196,354
North Warwickshire 14,937
North West Leicester 19,954
North Wiltshire 41,075
Northampton 128,753
Norwich 108,027
Nottingham 256,377
Nuneaton & Bedworth 60,762
Oadby & Wigston 17,650
Oldham 134,438
Oswestry 17,239
Oxford 208,809
Pendle 77,473
Penwith 84,181
Peterborough 178,454
Plymouth 353,101
Poole 114,613
Portsmouth 277,431
Preston 91,279
Purbeck 29,875
Reading 224,887
Redbridge 515,490
Redcar & Cleveland 97,564
Redditch 21,978
Reigate & Banstead 59,334
Restormel 116,606
Ribble Valley 18,198
Richmondshire 14,555
Richmond-upon-Thames 143,147
Rochdale 172,956
Rochford 38,479
Rossendale 43,410
Rother 80,804
Rotherham 85,464
Rugby 32,675
Runnymede 37,455
Rushcliffe 41,776
Rushmoor 48,322
Rutland 8,547
Ryedale 18,609
Salford 334,841
Salisbury 84,745
Sandwell 113,078
Scarborough 135,144
Sedgefield 28,350
Sedgemoor 91,880
Sefton 337,337
Selby 28,490
Sevenoaks 43,848
Sheffield 220,625
Shepway 199,760
Shrewsbury & Atcham 46,066
Slough 157,522
Solihull 44,466
South Bedfordshire 43,756
South Bucks 14,092
South Cambridgeshire 38,483
South Derbyshire 44,462
South Gloucestershire 79,481
South Hams 69,760
South Holland 19,138
South Kesteven 54,456
South Lakeland 57,356
South Norfolk 34,296
South Northamptonshire 21,240
South Oxfordshire 82,978
South Ribble 22,310
South Shropshire 22,340
South Somerset 89,952
South Staffordshire 16,165
South Tyneside 140,946
Southampton 313,850
Southend-on-Sea 352,544
Southwark 390,913
Spelthorne 42,509
St Albans 43,228
St Edmundsbury 35,009
St Helens 85,141
Stafford 28,320
Staffordshire Moorlands 25,376
Stevenage 37,299
Stockport 187,923
Stockton-on-Tees 110,108
Stoke-on-Trent 123,889
Stratford-on-Avon 43,432
Stroud 56,710
Suffolk Coastal 65,700
Sunderland 192,844
Surrey Heath 31,136
Sutton 147,482
Swale 167,129
Swindon 103,024
Tameside 131,500
Tamworth 39,836
Tandridge 27,870
Taunton Deane 93,056
Teesdale 11,256
Teignbridge 108,165
Tendring 160,349
Test Valley 26,790
Tewkesbury 31,830
Thanet 334,488
The Wrekin 72,253
Three Rivers 31,937
Thurrock 89,406
Tonbridge & Malling 37,536
Torbay 309,901
Torridge 68,272
Tower Hamlets 195,453
Trafford 141,778
Tunbridge Wells 56,567
Tynedale 13,765
Uttlesford 26,955
Vale of White Horse 38,299
Vale Royal 28,699
Wakefield 99,088
Walsall 68,615
Waltham Forest 609,193
Wandsworth 525,578
Wansbeck 26,891
Warrington 56,937
Warwick 62,069
Watford 71,045
Waveney 187,248
Waverley 51,557
Wealdon 77,903
Wear Valley 29,496
Wellingborough 41,813
Welwyn Hatfield 42,186
West Devon 46,268
West Dorset 46,390
West Lancashire 47,120
West Lindsey 37,459
West Oxfordshire 51,536
West Somerset 42,829
West Wiltshire 89,235
Westminster 821,419
Weymouth & Portland 96,118
Wigan 97,552
Winchester 37,510
Windsor & Maidenhead 68,575
Wirral 378,323
Woking 45,431
Wokingham 51,439
Wolverhampton 113,643
Worcester 105,236
Worthing 147,475
Wychavon 29,142
Wycombe 55,609
Wyre 80,310
Wyre Forest 46,107
York 126,244
Scotland
Aberdeen City 74,345
Aberdeenshire 57,263
Angus 37,424
Argyll & Bute 64,595
Clackmannanshire 11,107
Dumfries & Galloway 71,883
Dundee City 83,795
East Ayrshire 31,942
East Dunbartonshire 21,049
East Lothian 47,700
East Renfrewshire 22,227
Edinburgh City 458,013
Falkirk 31,419
Fife 172,455
Glasgow City 480,497
Highland 68,488
Inverclyde 35,829
Midlothian 21,308
Moray 37,977
North Ayrshire 70,782
North Lanarkshire 43,614
Orkney 10,351
Perthshire & Kinross 91,813
Renfrewshire 51,205
Scottish Borders 26,623
Shetland 3,103
South Ayrshire 79,752
South Lanarkshire 64,483
Stirling 27,247
West Dunbartonshire 21,768
West Lothian 49,582
Western Isles 9,002
Wales
Blaenau Gwent 42,254
Bridgend 95,580
Caerphilly 105,947
Cardiff 260,606
Carmarthenshire 132,726
Ceredigion 67,738
Conwy 134,185
Denbighshire 131,804
Flintshire 59,401
Gwynedd 113,809
Isle of Anglesey 68,664
Merthyr Tydfil 34,155
Monmouthshire 37,490
Neath Port Talbot 75,375
Newport 99,827
Pembrokeshire 113,108
Powys 60,073
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff 140,028
Swansea 189,588
Torfaen 33,567
Vale of Glamorgan 122,731
Wrexham 62,974