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Contents
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Discretionary Housing Payments government contribution
for 2015/16
Introduction ............................................................................... 1
Background ............................................................................... 2
Distribution of the government contribution ............................... 4
Queries ..................................................................................... .9
Allocation of £125 million fund for Discretionary
Housing Payments .................................................... Appendix A
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Discretionary Housing Payments government contribution
for 2015/16
Introduction
1 This circular gives details of each local authority’s (LA’s) government contribution
and overall expenditure limit for Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) for
2015/16.
Background
2 DHP funding was increased in 2013/14 to assist with the impact of the new
welfare reforms on benefit claimants. The overall funding for 2015/16 is £125
million. This comprises of funding for four separate areas of support – Core
funding, Local Housing Allowance (LHA), Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy
(RSRS) and benefit cap. The government has previously committed to
maintaining the level of funding to support those affected by the RSRS and this
will remain at £60 million.
3 Distribution of the funding is based on the effect of each element on individual
LAs.
Distribution of the government contribution
4 Core funding (£15 million): In previous years, up until April 2011, the total DHP
funding was distributed based on the mid-point between each LA’s spend for the
latest year for which we had reliable data and its contribution for that year. So for
example, if the LA had a contribution of £50,000 and spent £40,000, it would be
allocated £45,000; and if it had spent £70,000 it would be allocated £60,000.
5 However, since 2011/12 the increase in overall DHP funding has made it difficult
to apply this formula, because there are no past details of the proportion of the
overall expenditure that is attributable to core funding. The approach we have
adopted for 2015/16 is to pro-rata the £15 million based on the most recent
figures available, in respect of the level of expenditure for Housing Benefit (HB) in
2012/13. This approach is based on the DHP Order 2001 Article 2 (a). This has
the added advantage of linking DHP funding to need (HB expenditure).
6 LHA reforms (£25 million): Distribution is based on aggregate losses from the
LHA changes in each LA which were used for previous years’ allocations. As
these aggregate losses were based on the February 2011 caseloads, the
distribution of losses has been adjusted to take into account changes in LHA
caseloads between February 2011 and August 2014 (the latest available data).
7 Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (£60 million): The allocation of RSRS
DHP funding in 2015/16 will be the same as in previous years. The distribution of
£55 million of the funding will be based on the aggregate RSRS losses in each
LA area, calculated from the August 2014 official statistics available on numbers
of claimants with a deduction and the average weekly deduction. £5 million of the
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
funding will continue to be distributed to the 21 most sparsely populated LAs,
using the same methodology based on aggregate RSRS losses.
8 Benefit cap (£25 million): The funding available for 2015/16 has been set at £25
million. The allocation of DHP funds for 2015/16 is based on the proportion of all
capped funds (savings from the cap) from households capped by more than £50
per week in each LA.
Queries
9 Please ensure that any queries relating to the allocation of the Government
contribution towards DHPs are sent, via email, to:
[email protected]
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Appendix A
Allocation of the £125 million fund for Discretionary
Housing Payment 2015/2016
Local authority
Aberdeen City
Aberdeenshire
Adur
Allerdale
Amber Valley
Angus
Argyll and Bute
Arun
Ashfield
Ashford
Aylesbury Vale
Babergh
Barking and Dagenham
Barnet
Barnsley
Barrow-in-Furness
Basildon
Basingstoke and Deane
Bassetlaw
Bath and North East Somerset
Bedford
Bexley
Birmingham
Blaby
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackpool
Blaenau Gwent / Blaenau Gwent
Bolsover
Bolton
Boston
Bournemouth
Bracknell Forest
Bradford
Braintree
Breckland
Brent
Brentwood
Bridgend / Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr
Brighton and Hove
Bristol, City of
Broadland
Bromley
Bromsgrove
Broxbourne
Broxtowe
Burnley
Bury
Caerphilly / Caerffili
Government
Contribution
£288,745
£477,827
£72,249
£190,279
£155,207
£331,583
£371,352
£173,365
£187,121
£149,212
£192,659
£83,945
£749,453
£1,263,389
£460,985
£75,698
£363,989
£259,417
£156,041
£185,742
£254,161
£433,043
£3,051,683
£47,062
£296,984
£369,724
£180,566
£123,279
£586,776
£84,208
£340,296
£126,547
£890,006
£162,654
£187,775
£2,606,875
£58,426
£252,060
£611,084
£945,862
£76,039
£509,406
£57,774
£141,108
£89,873
£155,940
£250,465
£381,973
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£180,623
£475,698
£388,018
£433,413
£467,803
£373,030
£481,648
£209,863
£1,873,633
£3,158,473
£1,152,463
£189,245
£909,973
£648,543
£390,103
£464,355
£635,403
£1,082,608
£7,629,208
£117,655
£742,460
£924,310
£451,415
£308,198
£1,466,940
£210,520
£850,740
£316,368
£2,225,015
£406,635
£469,438
£6,517,188
£146,065
£630,150
£1,527,710
£2,364,655
£190,098
£1,273,515
£144,435
£352,770
£224,683
£389,850
£626,163
£954,933
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Appendix A
Calderdale
Cambridge
Camden
Cannock Chase
Canterbury
Cardiff / Caerdydd
Carlisle
Carmarthenshire / Sir Gaerfyrddin
Castle Point
Central Bedfordshire
Ceredigion / Ceredigion
Charnwood
Chelmsford
Cheltenham
Cherwell
Cheshire East
Cheshire West and Chester
Chesterfield
Chichester
Chiltern
Chorley
Christchurch
City of London
Clackmannanshire
Colchester
Conwy / Conwy
Copeland
Corby
Cornwall
Cotswold
County Durham
Coventry
Craven
Crawley
Croydon
Dacorum
Darlington
Dartford
Daventry
Denbighshire / Sir Ddinbych
Derby
Derbyshire Dales
Doncaster
Dover
Dudley
Dumfries and Galloway
Dundee City
Ealing
East Ayrshire
East Cambridgeshire
East Devon
East Dorset
East Dunbartonshire
£278,211
£149,334
£889,647
£93,570
£159,534
£815,034
£155,375
£305,603
£85,052
£254,525
£225,498
£137,517
£174,380
£142,971
£159,368
£372,854
£472,924
£173,312
£116,154
£65,130
£114,869
£48,223
£21,562
£196,236
£239,924
£153,656
£171,252
£128,675
£664,024
£79,665
£981,783
£619,313
£125,880
£196,609
£1,201,438
£233,999
£150,935
£101,075
£88,080
£158,793
£475,669
£63,082
£570,107
£156,875
£569,990
£688,364
£412,411
£1,904,697
£305,931
£77,998
£101,211
£64,218
£82,691
£695,528
£373,335
£2,224,118
£233,925
£398,835
£2,037,585
£388,438
£764,008
£212,630
£636,313
£563,745
£343,793
£435,950
£357,428
£398,420
£932,135
£1,182,310
£433,280
£290,385
£162,825
£287,173
£120,558
£53,905
£599,810
£384,140
£428,130
£321,688
£1,660,060
£199,163
£2,454,458
£1,548,283
£314,700
£491,523
£3,003,595
£584,998
£377,338
£252,688
£220,200
£396,983
£1,189,173
£157,705
£1,425,268
£392,188
£1,424,975
£4,761,743
£194,995
£253,028
£160,545
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Appendix A
East Hampshire
East Hertfordshire
East Lindsey
East Lothian
East Northamptonshire
East Renfrewshire
East Riding of Yorkshire
East Staffordshire
Eastbourne
Eastleigh
Eden
Edinburgh, City of
Eilean Siar
Elmbridge
Enfield
Epping Forest
Epsom and Ewell
Erewash
Exeter
Falkirk
Fareham
Fenland
Fife
Flintshire / Sir y Fflint
Forest Heath
Forest of Dean
Fylde
Gateshead
Gedling
Glasgow City
Gloucester
Gosport
Gravesham
Great Yarmouth
Greenwich
Guildford
Gwynedd / Gwynedd
Hackney
Halton
Hambleton
Hammersmith and Fulham
Harborough
Haringey
Harlow
Harrogate
Harrow
Hart
Hartlepool
Hastings
Havant
Havering
Herefordshire, County of
Hertsmere
£87,347
£124,641
£185,225
£106,448
£91,995
£59,864
£287,614
£126,551
£162,574
£134,446
£169,040
£1,343,558
£103,909
£137,381
£1,626,073
£123,215
£77,791
£132,345
£145,164
£257,649
£60,382
£118,088
£705,090
£208,883
£65,655
£87,579
£67,102
£426,183
£101,831
£1,651,754
£185,753
£107,916
£176,894
£172,367
£729,275
£130,900
£620,483
£1,507,187
£343,725
£78,920
£787,958
£46,343
£1,485,882
£173,789
£109,387
£677,094
£47,805
£286,417
£230,368
£151,713
£379,580
£195,709
£170,604
£218,368
£311,603
£463,063
£229,988
£719,035
£316,378
£406,435
£336,115
£422,600
£343,453
£4,065,183
£308,038
£194,478
£330,863
£362,910
£150,955
£295,220
£522,208
£164,138
£218,948
£167,755
£1,065,458
£254,578
£464,383
£269,790
£442,235
£430,918
£1,823,188
£327,250
£1,551,208
£3,767,968
£859,313
£197,300
£1,969,895
£115,858
£3,714,705
£434,473
£273,468
£1,692,735
£119,513
£716,043
£575,920
£379,283
£948,950
£489,273
£426,510
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Appendix A
High Peak
Highland
Hillingdon
Hinckley and Bosworth
Horsham
Hounslow
Huntingdonshire
Hyndburn
Inverclyde
Ipswich
Isle of Anglesey / Ynys Môn
Isle of Wight
Isles of Scilly
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kettering
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
Kingston upon Hull, City of
Kingston Upon Thames
Kirklees
Knowsley
Lambeth
Lancaster
Leeds
Leicester
Lewes
Lewisham
Lichfield
Lincoln
Liverpool
Luton
Maidstone
Maldon
Malvern Hills
Manchester
Mansfield
Medway
Melton
Mendip
Merthyr Tydfil / Merthyr Tudful
Merton
Mid Devon
Mid Suffolk
Mid Sussex
Middlesbrough
Midlothian
Milton Keynes
Mole Valley
Monmouthshire / Sir Fynwy
Moray
Neath Port Talbot / Castell-nedd Port Talbot
New Forest
Newark and Sherwood
£71,857
£1,189,515
£673,124
£78,129
£102,036
£714,467
£161,238
£118,746
£185,910
£246,262
£118,413
£185,553
£169
£989,332
£1,137,021
£113,975
£182,100
£681,189
£308,670
£551,690
£563,700
£1,277,456
£162,472
£1,531,192
£681,863
£113,991
£1,226,063
£79,039
£139,678
£1,751,657
£402,467
£162,344
£52,594
£86,737
£1,874,257
£170,670
£372,112
£35,202
£114,330
£138,154
£431,539
£61,358
£57,914
£103,778
£504,739
£156,517
£430,732
£56,935
£116,197
£223,762
£355,637
£159,517
£131,976
£179,643
£1,682,810
£195,323
£255,090
£1,786,168
£403,095
£296,865
£615,655
£296,033
£463,883
£423
£2,473,330
£2,842,553
£284,938
£455,250
£1,702,973
£771,675
£1,379,225
£1,409,250
£3,193,640
£406,180
£3,827,980
£1,704,658
£284,978
£3,065,158
£197,598
£349,195
£4,379,143
£1,006,168
£405,860
£131,485
£216,843
£4,685,643
£426,675
£930,280
£88,005
£285,825
£345,385
£1,078,848
£153,395
£144,785
£259,445
£1,261,848
£1,076,830
£142,338
£290,493
£889,093
£398,793
£329,940
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Appendix A
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newham
Newport / Casnewydd
North Ayrshire
North Devon
North Dorset
North East Derbyshire
North East Lincolnshire
North Hertfordshire
North Kesteven
North Lanarkshire
North Lincolnshire
North Norfolk
North Somerset
North Tyneside
North Warwickshire
North West Leicestershire
Northampton
Northumberland
Norwich
Nottingham
Nuneaton and Bedworth
Oadby and Wigston
Oldham
Orkney Islands
Oxford
Pembrokeshire / Sir Benfro
Pendle
Perth and Kinross
Peterborough
Plymouth
Poole
Portsmouth
Powys / Powys
Preston
Purbeck
Reading
Redbridge
Redcar and Cleveland
Redditch
Reigate and Banstead
Renfrewshire
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff / Rhondda, Cynon, Taf
Ribble Valley
Richmond Upon Thames
Richmondshire
Rochdale
Rochford
Rossendale
Rother
Rotherham
Rugby
£786,300
£159,189
£1,214,264
£378,485
£374,063
£96,580
£63,419
£153,521
£271,668
£181,385
£99,977
£618,509
£240,930
£104,892
£252,239
£406,414
£55,881
£103,678
£316,083
£454,665
£365,380
£863,993
£185,287
£36,918
£377,386
£53,715
£288,092
£176,678
£104,556
£380,334
£360,957
£408,999
£178,368
£401,690
£547,160
£253,838
£42,574
£359,568
£788,163
£334,203
£104,371
£136,684
£366,294
£464,958
£27,729
£240,821
£103,277
£445,327
£66,142
£81,505
£113,869
£596,939
£103,949
£1,965,750
£397,973
£3,035,660
£946,213
£241,450
£158,548
£383,803
£679,170
£453,463
£249,943
£602,325
£262,230
£630,598
£1,016,035
£139,703
£259,195
£790,208
£1,136,663
£913,450
£2,159,983
£463,218
£92,295
£943,465
£720,230
£441,695
£261,390
£902,393
£1,022,498
£445,920
£1,004,225
£1,367,900
£634,595
£106,435
£898,920
£1,970,408
£835,508
£260,928
£341,710
£1,162,395
£69,323
£602,053
£258,193
£1,113,318
£165,355
£203,763
£284,673
£1,492,348
£259,873
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Appendix A
Runnymede
Rushcliffe
Rushmoor
Rutland
Ryedale
Salford
Sandwell
Scarborough
Scottish Borders
Sedgemoor
Sefton
Selby
Sevenoaks
Sheffield
Shepway
Shetland Islands
Shropshire
Slough
Solihull
South Ayrshire
South Bucks
South Cambridgeshire
South Derbyshire
South Gloucestershire
South Hams
South Holland
South Kesteven
South Lakeland
South Lanarkshire
South Norfolk
South Northamptonshire
South Oxfordshire
South Ribble
South Somerset
South Staffordshire
South Tyneside
Southampton
Southend-on-Sea
Southwark
Spelthorne
St Albans
St Edmundsbury
St. Helens
Stafford
Staffordshire Moorlands
Stevenage
Stirling
Stockport
Stockton-on-Tees
Stoke-on-Trent
Stratford-on-Avon
Stroud
Suffolk Coastal
£67,817
£87,979
£125,516
£23,478
£178,650
£697,702
£862,631
£178,678
£483,341
£136,591
£600,392
£85,563
£112,420
£958,791
£163,284
£71,151
£325,939
£429,112
£229,382
£214,767
£62,494
£113,348
£73,247
£248,655
£82,115
£101,037
£162,010
£74,065
£534,621
£107,001
£60,612
£100,814
£89,175
£174,417
£89,349
£411,131
£462,774
£321,546
£1,023,157
£120,689
£121,101
£107,133
£475,929
£111,535
£67,337
£156,565
£417,424
£306,028
£389,061
£550,129
£131,137
£90,077
£100,711
£169,543
£219,948
£313,790
£58,695
£446,625
£1,744,255
£2,156,578
£446,695
£341,478
£1,500,980
£213,908
£281,050
£2,396,978
£408,210
£814,848
£1,072,780
£573,455
£156,235
£283,370
£183,118
£621,638
£205,288
£252,593
£405,025
£185,163
£267,503
£151,530
£252,035
£222,938
£436,043
£223,373
£1,027,828
£1,156,935
£803,865
£2,557,893
£301,723
£302,753
£267,833
£1,189,823
£278,838
£168,343
£391,413
£765,070
£972,653
£1,375,323
£327,843
£225,193
£251,778
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Appendix A
Sunderland
Surrey Heath
Sutton
Swale
Swansea / Abertawe
Swindon
Tameside
Tamworth
Tandridge
Taunton Deane
Teignbridge
Telford and Wrekin
Tendring
Test Valley
Tewkesbury
Thanet
The Vale of Glamorgan / Bro Morgannwg
Three Rivers
Thurrock
Tonbridge and Malling
Torbay
Torfaen / Tor-faen
Torridge
Tower Hamlets
Trafford
Tunbridge Wells
Uttlesford
Vale of White Horse
Wakefield
Walsall
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Warrington
Warwick
Watford
Waveney
Waverley
Wealden
Wellingborough
Welwyn Hatfield
West Berkshire
West Devon
West Dorset
West Dunbartonshire
West Lancashire
West Lindsey
West Lothian
West Oxfordshire
West Somerset
Westminster
Weymouth and Portland
Wigan
Wiltshire
£767,134
£59,472
£294,033
£247,614
£460,560
£279,467
£390,995
£93,652
£67,609
£117,872
£115,702
£405,451
£277,087
£127,431
£86,795
£299,187
£187,724
£95,788
£292,035
£140,671
£256,928
£225,956
£90,083
£1,565,107
£331,683
£135,178
£59,205
£117,673
£775,577
£687,524
£936,389
£1,055,313
£240,414
£140,259
£143,518
£168,193
£99,721
£101,554
£111,094
£171,611
£170,542
£119,305
£101,757
£333,888
£163,496
£115,593
£344,064
£98,550
£154,700
£2,632,460
£115,515
£553,338
£505,756
£1,917,835
£148,680
£735,083
£619,035
£1,151,400
£698,668
£977,488
£234,130
£169,023
£294,680
£289,255
£1,013,628
£692,718
£318,578
£216,988
£747,968
£469,310
£239,470
£730,088
£351,678
£642,320
£564,890
£225,208
£3,912,768
£829,208
£337,945
£148,013
£294,183
£1,938,943
£1,718,810
£2,340,973
£2,638,283
£601,035
£350,648
£358,795
£420,483
£249,303
£253,885
£277,735
£429,028
£426,355
£298,263
£254,393
£408,740
£288,983
£246,375
£386,750
£6,581,150
£288,788
£1,383,345
£1,264,390
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015
HB Circular S1/2015
Appendix A
Winchester
Windsor and Maidenhead
Wirral
Woking
Wokingham
Wolverhampton
Worcester
Worthing
Wrexham / Wrecsam
Wychavon
Wycombe
Wyre
Wyre Forest
York
Total
£96,253
£127,755
£736,570
£98,604
£81,779
£685,257
£148,985
£113,806
£226,785
£126,637
£190,926
£128,921
£127,907
£177,562
£240,633
£319,388
£1,841,425
£246,510
£204,448
£1,713,143
£372,463
£284,515
£566,963
£316,593
£477,315
£322,303
£319,768
£443,905
£125,000,000
Subsidy circular
30 January 2015