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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2001 No. 2350

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2001

  Made 28th June 2001 
  Laid before Parliament [a]4th July 2001 
  Coming into force 25th July 2001 

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with the consent of the Treasury[1], in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 140B(1), (3) and (4), 140F and 189(1) and (4) to (7) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992[2], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation, in accordance with section 176(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2001 and shall come into force on 25th July 2001.

    (2) In this Order, "the principal Order" means the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998[
3].

Scottish Homes
     2. For the year commencing on 1st April 2000, for the sum of "£1,010,190" specified as the maximum payable to Scottish Homes in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) of article 13 of the principal Order[4], there shall be substituted the sum of "£773,042".

Amendment to articles 14, 15, 16 and 17
     3. For the year commencing on 1st April 1999 and for any relevant year thereafter, paragraph (1) of articles 14, 16 and 17 and paragraph (4) of article 15 of the principal Order shall be amended by substituting for the words "article 13(1)(b)(ii)" the words "article 13(1)(b)(iii)".

Sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy
    
4. For the year commencing on 1st April 2000, for Schedule 1 to the principal Order[5] there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.

Thresholds for subsidy on rent allowances
     5. For the year commencing on 1st April 2000 and for any relevant year thereafter, for the table in Part V of Schedule 4 to the principal Order[6] there shall be substituted the table set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

Amendment of Schedule 1
     6.  - (1) Column 5 of Schedule 1 to the principal Order[7] shall be amended by substituting "101,144" for "38,057" in respect of Kingston-upon-Hull and "38,057" for "101,144" in respect of Kingston-upon-Thames.

    (2) This article shall take effect in respect of the year commencing on 1st April 1999.

Amendments to Schedule 4 consequent on claim-related rent
     7.  - (1) For the year commencing on 1st April 2000 and for any relevant year thereafter, Schedule 4 to the principal Order shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.

    (2) For paragraph 7 of Part II of Schedule 4 there shall be substituted the following paragraph - 

    (3) For sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 8 of Part II of Schedule 4 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph - 

    (4) The following sub-paragraph shall be added to paragraph 9 of Part II of Schedule 4 - 

    (5) For sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph 12 of Part II of Schedule 4 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph - 

    (6) Paragraph 17 of Part IV of Schedule 4 shall be amended by - 



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.


Malcolm Wicks
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions

26th June 2001



We consent,


Anne McGuire

Nick Ainger
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

28th June 2001



SCHEDULE 1
Article 4

The following Schedule is substituted for Schedule 1 to the principal Order.






SCHEDULE 2
Article 5

The following table is substituted for the table in Part V of Schedule 4 to the principal Order.


"THRESHOLD ABOVE WHICH REDUCED SUBSIDY IS PAYABLE ON RENT ALLOWANCES
(1) (2)
Rent Registration Area Threshold weekly sum
     (£)
ENGLAND     
Avon 91.49
Barking and Dagenham 136.89
Barnet 153.80
Bedfordshire 83.98
Berkshire 109.89
Bexley 136.34
Brent 128.25
Bromley 152.37
Buckinghamshire 97.32
Cambridgeshire 76.71
Camden 191.70
Cheshire 86.18
City of London 162.47
Cleveland 82.85
Cornwall 103.56
Croydon 193.15
Cumbria 60.82
Derbyshire 75.35
Devon 96.92
Dorset 87.82
Durham 79.90
Ealing 164.12
Enfield 138.34
Essex 110.99
Gloucestershire 79.93
Greater Manchester 89.87
Greenwich 131.58
Hackney 128.65
Hammersmith and Fulham 137.54
Hampshire 104.85
Haringey 133.32
Harrow 147.08
Havering 136.70
Herefordshire 108.57
Hertfordshire 98.35
Hillingdon 144.56
Hounslow 144.60
Humberside 77.31
Isle of Wight 94.10
Islington 147.08
Kensington and Chelsea 157.32
Kent 119.44
Kingston-upon-Thames 159.11
Lambeth 127.73
Lancashire 99.30
Leicestershire 79.38
Lewisham 109.77
Lincolnshire 71.76
Merseyside 75.87
Merton 150.34
Midlands (West) 105.25
Newham 114.80
Norfolk 75.70
Northamptonshire 82.94
Northumberland 77.81
Nottinghamshire 84.42
Oxfordshire 121.89
Redbridge 124.10
Richmond-upon-Thames 163.07
Shropshire 113.42
Somerset 79.30
Southwark 129.36
Staffordshire 101.99
Suffolk 72.20
Surrey 122.08
Sussex (East) 121.69
Sussex (West) 113.68
Sutton 135.18
Tower Hamlets 144.22
Tyne and Wear 75.32
Waltham Forest 116.34
Wandsworth 154.80
Warwickshire 109.05
Westminster 195.73
Wiltshire 83.80
Yorkshire (North) 90.72
Yorkshire (South) 69.06
Yorkshire (West) 77.18
SCOTLAND     
Aberdeen 116.83
Aberdeenshire 126.66
Angus 116.83
Argyll and Bute 107.61
Clackmannanshire 150.40
Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar 172.53
Dumfries and Galloway 125.40
Dundee 116.83
East Ayrshire 103.93
East Dunbartonshire 133.48
East Lothian 132.78
East Renfrewshire 180.26
Edinburgh, City of 132.78
Falkirk 117.91
Fife 116.83
Glasgow 103.93
Highland 114.79
Inverclyde 103.93
Midlothian 132.78
Moray 116.83
North Ayrshire 103.93
North Lanarkshire 103.93
Renfrewshire 103.93
South Ayrshire 119.53
South Lanarkshire 103.93
Orkney 116.83
Perth and Kinross 124.08
Scottish Borders 132.78
Shetland 116.83
Stirling 121.19
West Dunbartonshire 103.93
West Lothian 132.78
WALES     
Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys (Glamorgan (Mid)) 66.76
Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan (Glamorgan (South)) 77.99
North East Wales (Clwyd) 61.35
North West Wales (Gwynedd) 58.63
Powys 69.55
South East Wales (Gwent) 70.60
Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot (Glamorgan (West)) 62.75
West Wales (Dyfed) 68.48"




EXPLANATORY NOTE

(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 principal Order"). Section 140F of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 authorises the varying of an order before, during or after the year to which it relates.

Article 2 provides that the additional subsidy payable to Scottish Homes is not to exceed £773,042.

Articles 4 and 5 substitute new schedules of figures to be used in calculating subsidy and thresholds for subsidy on rent allowances respectively (substituting Schedule 1 and Part V to Schedule 4 to the principal Order).

Article 7 makes amendments to Schedule 4 to the principal Order that are consequential on - 

Articles 3 and 6 make small remedial amendments.

This Order does not impose a charge on business.


Notes:

[1] See section 189(8) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5); amended by paragraph 3(5) of Schedule 13 to the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52), paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 (c. 27) and paragraph 57(3) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2).back

[2] 1992 c. 5; sections 140B and 140F were inserted by the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52), Schedule 12, paragraph 4 and section 140B(1) was amended by the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47), Schedule 1, paragraph 7.back

[3] S.I. 1998/562, amended by S.I. 1998/2865, 1999/550, 2000/1091 and 2000/2340.back

[4] Article 13(2)(a) was amended by S.I. 1999/550 and 2000/1091.back

[5] S.I. 1998/562; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/550 and 2000/1091.back

[6] S.I. 1998/562; Part V was substituted by S.I. 1999/550 and the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/1091 and 2000/2340.back

[7] S.I. 1998/562; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/550 and 2000/1091.back

[8] S.I. 1997/1984, the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2000/1.back

[9] S.I. 1997/1995 (S. 144), the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2000/3.back

[10] Paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.I. 1988/1444 and amended by S.I. 1989/416, 1997/65 and 1999/264.back

[11] "Hostel" was transferred to regulation 2 from regulation 12A(8) by regulation 4 of the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2401).back



[a] Amended by Correction Slip. Page 1, italic heading below title, after "Laid before Parliament": delete "July 2001", substitute "4th July 2001". back



ISBN 0 11 029637 0


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 4 July 2001


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