
2014 No. 1667
Social Security
The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) and Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2014
Made 26th June 2014
Laid before Parliament 3rd July 2014
Coming into force 25th July 2014

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 140B(1) and (3), 140C(1) and (4), 140F(2) and 189(1), (4), (5) and (7) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and section 70(3)(a), (4) and (6) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000.
In accordance with section 189(8) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, the Secretary of State has obtained the consent of the Treasury.

In accordance with section 176(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, consultation has taken place with organisations appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of the authorities concerned.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) and Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2014 and comes into force on 25th July 2014.
(2) Article 2 and Schedule 1 have effect from 1st April 2013.
(3) Article 3, Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 have effect from 1st April 2014.
(4) In this Order—
(a) the “1998 Order” means the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998; and
(b) the “2001 Order” means the Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Order 2001.
Amendments having effect from 1st April 2013
2 

(1) The 1998 Order is amended as follows—
(a) in paragraph (3) of article 4 (Requirement of claim) for “31st May” substitute “30th April”; and
(b) for Schedule 1 (Sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy) of the 1998 Order substitute Schedule 1 as set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.
(2) The 2001 Order is amended as follows—
(a) in paragraph (2)(f) of article 3 (Claims) for “31st May” substitute “30th April”; and
(b) in paragraph (1) of article 7 (Limit on total expenditure) for “at the beginning of that year” substitute “in that year”.
Amendments having effect from 1st April 2014
3 

(1) The 1998 Order is amended as follows.
(2) For Part 3 of Schedule 4A (Weekly rent limits for purposes of Part 2: Authorities in England) to the 1998 Order substitute Part 3 as set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.
(3) For Part 5 of Schedule 4A (Amounts for purposes of Part 4, paragraph 4: Authorities in Wales) to the 1998 Order substitute Part 5 as set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Freud
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Work and Pensions
24th June 2014We consent
Sam Gyimah
Mark Lancaster
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
26th June 2014
SCHEDULE 1
Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 1 to the 1998 Order
Article 2(1)(b)
“
SCHEDULE 1
Sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy
Article 12(1)(b)

RELEVANT YEAR 2013-14
Local authority Administration subsidy
Adur £408,923.99
Allerdale £664,117.99
Amber Valley £815,412.99
Arun £1,094,750.00
Ashfield £901,187.37
Ashford £750,919.00
Aylesbury Vale £898,064.00
Babergh £483,669.00
Barking & Dagenham £2,078,055.99
Barnet £2,985,717.37
Barnsley £2,037,399.99
Barrow in Furness £570,190.00
Basildon £1,431,236.37
Basingstoke and Deane £942,262.37
Bassetlaw £817,787.00
Bath & North East Somerset £1,081,507.00
Bedford £1,217,323.00
Bexley £1,583,177.99
Birmingham £11,485,038.00
Blaby £422,739.00
Blackburn with Darwen £1,346,450.00
Blackpool £1,945,415.99
Bolsover £585,722.99
Bolton £2,622,521.99
Boston £525,649.99
Bournemouth £1,762,006.37
Bracknell Forest £688,496.00
Bradford £4,818,815.00
Braintree £974,323.37
Breckland £878,262.99
Brent £3,981,772.00
Brentwood £367,247.00
Brighton and Hove £2,813,757.00
Bristol £3,988,076.00
Broadland £568,771.99
Bromley £1,954,822.99
Bromsgrove £418,779.99
Broxbourne £724,189.00
Broxtowe £630,969.37
Burnley £992,317.00
Bury £1,435,159.37
Calderdale £1,782,923.00
Cambridge £695,479.00
Camden £2,789,872.37
Cannock Chase £739,249.37
Canterbury £892,403.00
Carlisle £725,724.99
Castle Point £558,725.37
Central Bedfordshire £1,343,393.37
Charnwood £877,766.99
Chelmsford £879,706.99
Cheltenham £746,274.37
Cherwell £811,487.00
Cheshire East £2,090,122.00
Cheshire West and Chester £2,105,511.99
Chesterfield £885,215.99
Chichester £669,512.00
Chiltern £386,081.37
Chorley £656,947.99
Christchurch £326,467.99
City of London £136,190.37
Colchester £1,114,422.99
Copeland £505,618.99
Corby £590,372.00
Cornwall £4,081,395.99
Cotswold £448,409.00
Coventry £3,015,041.99
Craven £284,159.00
Crawley £899,652.00
Croydon £3,497,000.00
Dacorum £854,013.00
Darlington £921,776.00
Dartford £615,014.99
Daventry £388,473.99
Derby £1,986,249.99
Derbyshire Dales £332,974.99
Doncaster £2,762,289.00
Dover £866,585.37
Dudley £2,367,836.00
Durham £4,788,263.37
Ealing £3,386,433.00
East Cambridgeshire £460,161.99
East Devon £746,364.99
East Dorset £431,770.99
East Hampshire £539,319.37
East Hertfordshire £673,095.99
East Lindsey £1,196,893.99
East Northamptonshire £489,457.99
East Riding of Yorkshire £2,114,282.00
East Staffordshire £751,907.00
Eastbourne £941,612.00
Eastleigh £633,234.99
Eden £250,373.37
Elmbridge £611,449.99
Enfield £3,759,321.37
Epping Forest £695,925.99
Epsom and Ewell £361,035.99
Erewash £786,627.37
Exeter £859,349.99
Fareham £475,820.00
Fenland £802,529.99
Forest Heath £402,702.99
Forest of Dean £563,050.37
Fylde £460,187.99
Gateshead £1,812,996.99
Gedling £758,083.37
Gloucester £1,005,118.37
Gosport £703,821.00
Gravesham £744,124.00
Great Yarmouth £1,011,591.37
Greenwich £3,032,063.99
Guildford £697,680.37
Hackney £4,312,007.99
Halton £1,238,449.00
Hambleton £454,720.00
Hammersmith and Fulham £2,198,389.99
Harborough £327,390.99
Haringey £3,387,641.00
Harlow £761,310.37
Harrogate £778,921.00
Harrow £1,989,570.00
Hart £281,710.37
Hartlepool £1,135,567.00
Hastings £1,116,209.00
Havant £872,460.00
Havering £1,557,456.99
Herefordshire £1,129,237.99
Hertsmere £674,007.37
High Peak £605,353.37
Hillingdon £2,255,715.00
Hinckley and Bosworth £544,498.99
Horsham £553,796.99
Hounslow £2,229,729.00
Huntingdonshire £930,499.00
Hyndburn £829,163.99
Ipswich £1,092,943.00
Isle of Wight £1,271,324.00
Isles of Scilly £4,921.00
Islington £3,203,939.00
Kensington and Chelsea £1,942,016.37
Kettering £628,202.99
King’s Lynn & West Norfolk £1,046,442.43
Kingston upon Hull £2,914,040.37
Kingston upon Thames £1,042,502.00
Kirklees £3,238,383.00
Knowsley £1,798,605.00
Lambeth £4,300,255.99
Lancaster £980,385.99
Leeds £6,111,354.99
Leicester £3,161,411.37
Lewes £635,366.99
Lewisham £4,286,408.99
Lichfield £510,693.00
Lincoln £852,837.00
Liverpool £6,454,256.00
Luton £1,685,606.99
Maidstone £881,386.99
Maldon £348,718.99
Malvern Hills £417,128.99
Manchester £5,996,316.99
Mansfield £886,196.00
Medway £2,101,966.00
Melton £254,795.00
Mendip £730,891.99
Merton £1,488,662.37
Mid Devon £473,985.00
Mid Suffolk £411,817.00
Mid Sussex £566,864.99
Middlesbrough £1,736,132.00
Milton Keynes £2,017,060.00
Mole Valley £386,788.99
New Forest £891,428.00
Newark and Sherwood £679,426.37
Newcastle under Lyme £832,470.00
Newcastle upon Tyne £2,662,352.00
Newham £3,543,927.00
North Devon £719,132.37
North Dorset £371,286.99
North East Derbyshire £595,161.99
North East Lincolnshire £1,690,358.00
North Hertfordshire £822,614.00
North Kesteven £544,483.00
North Lincolnshire £1,336,121.00
North Norfolk £694,312.37
North Somerset £1,528,453.00
North Tyneside £1,764,568.00
North Warwickshire £385,577.99
North West Leicestershire £523,798.99
Northampton £1,637,218.00
Northumberland £2,358,619.00
Norwich £1,367,694.00
Nottingham £3,283,293.00
Nuneaton and Bedworth £911,483.37
Oadby and Wigston £270,050.99
Oldham £2,113,071.99
Oxford £1,025,255.99
Pendle £835,924.00
Peterborough £1,712,960.99
Plymouth £2,368,080.99
Poole £962,185.99
Portsmouth £2,053,563.00
Preston £1,153,861.99
Purbeck £280,404.99
Reading £1,322,147.99
Redbridge £2,037,593.00
Redcar and Cleveland £1,399,037.00
Redditch £612,686.37
Reigate and Banstead £733,657.00
Ribble Valley £235,790.00
Richmond upon Thames £1,037,275.00
Richmondshire £239,633.00
Rochdale £2,032,981.99
Rochford £407,145.99
Rossendale £537,233.00
Rother £636,332.99
Rotherham £2,099,725.00
Rugby £633,737.37
Runnymede £451,659.00
Rushcliffe £464,401.99
Rushmoor £655,881.00
Rutland £163,583.37
Ryedale £313,903.00
Salford £2,674,751.00
Sandwell £3,315,446.00
Scarborough £1,064,181.00
Sedgemoor £841,966.00
Sefton £2,348,124.00
Selby £430,555.00
Sevenoaks £575,847.99
Sheffield £4,288,811.99
Shepway £904,296.00
Shropshire £1,805,811.00
Slough £1,299,840.99
Solihull £1,252,984.00
South Bucks £283,436.99
South Cambridgeshire £540,887.37
South Derbyshire £451,557.99
South Gloucestershire £1,540,751.00
South Hams £511,125.00
South Holland £554,882.99
South Kesteven £771,010.00
South Lakeland £466,712.37
South Norfolk £664,470.37
South Northamptonshire £326,091.99
South Oxfordshire £537,547.99
South Ribble £606,187.99
South Somerset £1,047,382.00
South Staffordshire £562,779.99
South Tyneside £1,522,497.99
Southampton £2,104,020.99
Southend on Sea £1,596,412.00
Southwark £3,929,331.00
Spelthorne £541,015.99
St Albans £566,823.00
St Edmundsbury £608,548.99
St Helens £1,673,649.99
Stafford £643,698.37
Staffordshire Moorlands £484,732.37
Stevenage £663,222.99
Stockport £1,908,445.37
Stockton on Tees £1,741,967.37
Stoke on Trent £2,395,645.00
Stratford on Avon £617,864.37
Stroud £573,559.37
Suffolk Coastal £627,839.99
Sunderland £3,019,753.37
Surrey Heath £364,532.00
Sutton £1,399,023.00
Swale £1,058,367.99
Swindon £1,478,242.00
Tameside £2,151,336.99
Tamworth £510,993.99
Tandridge £395,257.99
Taunton Deane £726,992.37
Teignbridge £836,128.37
Telford and Wrekin £1,473,128.00
Tendring £1,373,320.00
Test Valley £593,580.00
Tewkesbury £444,450.00
Thanet £1,521,349.37
Three Rivers £483,954.99
Thurrock £1,175,985.00
Tonbridge and Malling £646,429.00
Torbay £1,555,464.37
Torridge £484,845.99
Tower Hamlets £4,568,364.00
Trafford £1,515,928.37
Tunbridge Wells £606,159.99
Uttlesford £320,483.00
Vale of White Horse £540,738.99
Wakefield £3,007,063.00
Walsall £2,920,752.00
Waltham Forest £2,662,515.99
Wandsworth £2,933,367.00
Warrington £1,380,401.99
Warwick £692,295.37
Watford £682,723.99
Waveney £972,593.55
Waverley £514,772.37
Wealden £689,252.99
Wellingborough £610,177.99
Welwyn Hatfield £709,098.99
West Berkshire £799,798.00
West Devon £342,298.38
West Dorset £588,617.99
West Lancashire £743,262.38
West Lindsey £619,848.00
West Oxfordshire £521,130.00
West Somerset £296,794.00
Westminster £3,151,002.99
Weymouth and Portland £590,354.99
Wigan £2,486,628.00
Wiltshire £2,481,426.00
Winchester £519,415.00
Windsor and Maidenhead £676,268.99
Wirral £2,978,896.99
Woking £509,203.99
Wokingham £480,886.00
Wolverhampton £2,738,756.00
Worcester £734,572.99
Worthing £759,339.99
Wychavon £632,853.99
Wycombe £946,485.00
Wyre £862,319.00
Wyre Forest £762,173.37
York £1,097,571.00
 
Aberdeen £1,316,193.99
Aberdeenshire £1,158,893.00
Angus £773,777.00
Argyll and Bute £662,657.00
Clackmannanshire £443,100.00
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar £226,073.00
Dumfries and Galloway £1,248,359.00
Dundee £1,612,982.00
East Ayrshire £1,098,439.37
East Dunbartonshire £497,679.00
East Lothian £649,199.99
East Renfrewshire £366,366.00
Edinburgh £3,633,711.00
Falkirk £1,176,597.37
Fife £2,720,607.00
Glasgow £7,688,825.99
Highland £1,511,185.00
Inverclyde £900,578.00
Midlothian £615,205.37
Moray £531,205.37
North Ayrshire £1,396,514.00
North Lanarkshire £2,928,892.37
Orkney £136,432.00
Perth and Kinross £913,898.00
Renfrewshire £1,587,404.00
Scottish Borders £850,077.00
Shetland £112,746.37
South Ayrshire £918,235.00
South Lanarkshire £2,349,812.00
Stirling £506,196.99
West Dunbartonshire £1,128,617.00
West Lothian £1,327,910.37
 
Blaenau Gwent £774,528.00
Bridgend £1,172,396.00
Caerphilly £1,449,819.99
Cardiff £2,843,484.00
Carmarthenshire £1,324,245.00
Ceredigion £493,082.99
Conwy £927,769.99
Denbighshire £789,464.99
Flintshire £974,399.37
Gwynedd £892,411.99
Isle of Anglesey £528,546.00
Merthyr Tydfil £599,359.00
Monmouthshire £513,585.00
Neath Port Talbot £1,328,817.99
Newport £1,283,804.99
Pembrokeshire £840,787.00
Powys £817,976.00
Rhondda Cynon Taf £2,106,132.99
Swansea £1,984,304.00
Torfaen £868,388.00
Vale of Glamorgan £852,311.99
Wrexham £970,342.00.”
SCHEDULE 2
Part to be substituted for Part 3 of Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order
Article 3(2)
“
PART 3 WEEKLY RENT LIMITS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 2: AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND

RELEVANT YEAR 2014-15
Authority Weekly rent limit
Adur £94.08
Arun £91.42
Ashfield £68.96
Ashford £89.56
Babergh £89.62
Barking & Dagenham £98.36
Barnet £112.19
Barnsley £75.32
Barrow in Furness £75.43
Basildon £87.42
Bassetlaw £72.85
Birmingham £83.42
Blackpool £71.24
Bolsover £82.51
Bournemouth £83.38
Brent £118.70
Brentwood £94.97
Brighton and Hove £84.74
Bristol £81.74
Broxtowe £75.74
Bury £77.23
Cambridge £103.44
Camden £121.75
Cannock Chase £74.08
Canterbury £88.92
Castle Point £89.17
Central Bedfordshire £102.61
Charnwood £74.92
Cheltenham £80.94
Cheshire West and Chester £82.99
Chesterfield £80.44
City of London £109.07
Colchester £87.81
Corby £79.16
Cornwall £71.39
Crawley £103.87
Croydon £106.89
Dacorum £109.40
Darlington £71.55
Dartford £90.09
Derby £78.93
Doncaster £73.72
Dover £84.76
Dudley £83.45
Durham £70.79
Ealing £103.65
East Devon £81.78
East Riding of Yorkshire £79.71
Eastbourne £78.36
Enfield £101.87
Epping Forest £100.04
Exeter £75.73
Fareham £91.09
Gateshead £77.00
Gloucester £78.39
Gosport £84.48
Gravesham £90.02
Great Yarmouth £79.66
Greenwich £103.64
Guildford £111.26
Hackney £100.43
Hammersmith and Fulham £116.75
Haringey £106.71
Harlow £92.94
Harrogate £81.22
Harrow £114.43
Havering £97.15
High Peak £73.72
Hillingdon £109.39
Hinckley and Bosworth £78.89
Hounslow £104.76
Ipswich £85.75
Isles of Scilly £79.59
Islington £120.18
Kensington and Chelsea £128.78
Kettering £82.13
Kingston upon Hull £75.54
Kingston upon Thames £113.32
Kirklees £70.23
Lambeth £108.93
Lancaster £77.80
Leeds £74.38
Leicester £72.72
Lewes £90.05
Lewisham £96.77
Lincoln £69.30
Luton £87.42
Manchester £73.34
Mansfield £73.66
Medway £82.50
Melton £77.46
Mid Devon £78.95
Mid Suffolk £82.75
Milton Keynes £86.31
New Forest £100.04
Newark and Sherwood £78.79
Newcastle upon Tyne £77.06
Newham £97.30
North East Derbyshire £81.69
North Kesteven £77.12
North Tyneside £76.90
North Warwickshire £88.87
North West Leicestershire £79.19
Northampton £83.99
Northumberland £68.50
Norwich £80.00
Nottingham £75.47
Nuneaton and Bedworth £78.48
Oadby and Wigston £81.19
Oldham £69.66
Oxford £109.75
Poole £86.12
Portsmouth £85.64
Reading £105.24
Redbridge £103.52
Redditch £78.79
Richmondshire £78.11
Rotherham £76.39
Rugby £86.88
Runnymede £110.62
Salford £75.62
Sandwell £82.09
Sedgemoor £78.12
Selby £78.86
Sheffield £72.48
Shepway £84.54
Shropshire £82.20
Slough £106.80
Solihull £82.79
South Cambridgeshire £107.38
South Derbyshire £79.58
South Holland £76.19
South Kesteven £79.44
South Tyneside £75.58
Southampton £85.27
Southend on Sea £86.67
Southwark £108.56
St Albans £113.50
Stevenage £98.70
Stockport £75.50
Stoke on Trent £70.99
Stroud £83.06
Sutton £108.22
Swindon £83.60
Tamworth £80.85
Tandridge £98.93
Taunton Deane £82.75
Tendring £83.99
Thanet £81.61
Thurrock £91.14
Tower Hamlets £111.57
Uttlesford £100.22
Waltham Forest £102.85
Wandsworth £125.63
Warwick £94.64
Waveney £79.63
Waverley £113.81
Wealden £85.87
Welwyn Hatfield £109.40
West Lancashire £76.71
Westminster £125.72
Wigan £78.60
Wiltshire £88.49
Winchester £101.74
Woking £104.18
Wokingham £114.39
Wolverhampton £80.50
York £79.87.”
SCHEDULE 3
Part to be substituted for Part 5 of Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order
Article 3(3)
“
PART 5 AMOUNTS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 4, PARAGRAPH 4: AUTHORITIES IN WALES

RELEVANT YEAR 2014-15
Authority (1)Specified Amount “O” (2)Guideline rent increase
Caerphilly £71.63 £2.46
Cardiff £81.99 £2.92
Carmarthenshire £71.76 £2.79
Denbighshire £69.22 £3.18
Flintshire £72.02 £3.32
Isle of Anglesey £67.78 £3.47
Pembrokeshire £72.94 £3.37
Powys £73.23 £3.08
Swansea £70.65 £2.62
Vale of Glamorgan £78.65 £3.30
Wrexham £71.37 £3.15.”