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Contents
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Details of the government contribution towards DHP for LAs in 2014/15
Introduction ............................................................................... 1
Background................................................................................ 2
Distribution of the government contribution and upper
limit for 2014/15 ......................................................................... 4
Queries .................................................................................... 12
Allocation of £165 million fund for DHP ..................... Appendix A
Subsidy circular
January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Details of the government contribution towards DHP for
LAs in 2014/15
Introduction
1 This circular gives details of the government contribution and overall expenditure
limit for DHP for LAs in the financial year 2014/15.
Background
2 In the 2013 Autumn Statement, the government announced that there would be
an additional £40 million available for DHP in 2014/15, thus making the total
amount of the government contribution £165 million. The higher level of funding
provided is intended to allow LAs to offer ongoing support to people affected by
changes to HB.
3 The government also announced that the funding targeted at people affected by
the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (RSRS) would be maintained in
2015/16. This is to give LAs the confidence to make long term awards where they
are appropriate.
Distribution of the government contribution and upper limit for
2014/15
4 DHP funding is currently allocated in four different strands, reflecting the
expected impacts of our welfare reforms. The paragraphs below outline the
methodology used for the distribution to individual LAs, which has been agreed
with representatives from the Local Authority Associations (LAAs).
5 Original baseline before Local Housing Allowance (LHA) reforms - £20
million: This funding allows LAs to help people with non-welfare reform related
matters, such as issues with non-dependents and helping people transition into
work. We agreed with the LAAs to use the same methodology as in previous
years i.e. the mid point between actual expenditure and the allocation. It was
agreed to roll forward the allocation from 2013/14.
6 LHA reforms - £40 million: This funding is allocated on the basis of the
aggregate losses from the LHA changes in each LA as used in the 2013/14
allocation, but with caseload figures updated to take into account changes
between February 2011 and August 2013.
7 RSRS - £60 million: This funding has been split into two parts.
8 £55 million of this funding has been allocated based upon aggregate RSRS
losses in each LA area, calculated from the August 2013 Single Housing Benefit
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Extract (SHBE) data on the number of claimants with a deduction and the
average weekly deduction.
9 The remaining £5 million has been distributed amongst the 21 most sparsely
populated LAs, based upon aggregate RSRS losses.
10 Benefit Cap - £45 million: The methodology for this element is comprised of two
parts using November 2013 SHBE Management Information (MI). The first part
recognises that an element of this funding should be allocated to LAs with a low
number of cases, or no cases, as they may have new capped cases at some
point in the year, and what cases they do have may take longer to make a
behavioural change; and the second part includes allocating funding to LAs
according to the proportion of the total Annual Managed Expenditure savings in
the November 2013 SHBE MI. This method allows DHP allocations to be
weighted toward LAs with households that face greater losses.
11 Although the methodology applies different approaches to the funding of each
policy area, the Department for Work and Pensions recognises that it is for LAs to
apply discretion as to which claimants will receive payments. For this reason
Appendix A only shows the overall total funding allocated to each LA for 2014/15,
and the overall upper spending limit.
Queries
12 Any queries about the allocation of the government contribution should be sent,
via email, to [email protected].
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Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Appendix A
Allocation of the £165 million fund for DHP 2014/15
LA
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
Adur
Allerdale
Amber Valley
Angus
Argyll and Bute
Arun
Ashfield
Ashford
Aylesbury Vale
Babergh
Barking & Dagenham
Barnet
Barnsley
Barrow in Furness
Basildon
Basingstoke and Deane
Bassetlaw
Bath & North East Somerset
Bedford
Bexley
Birmingham
Blaby
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackpool
Blaenau Gwent
Bolsover
Bolton
Boston
Bournemouth
Bracknell Forest
Bradford
Braintree
Breckland
Brent
Brentwood
Bridgend
Brighton and Hove
Bristol
Broadland
Bromley
Bromsgrove
Broxbourne
Government
contribution
£308,438
£480,948
£78,755
£191,397
£176,827
£357,857
£409,580
£254,232
£254,458
£203,686
£196,488
£108,998
£1,182,437
£2,013,425
£489,540
£92,744
£467,569
£275,807
£166,481
£251,406
£344,274
£599,363
£4,146,726
£63,756
£365,390
£580,575
£199,387
£134,031
£680,621
£96,146
£485,985
£163,708
£1,173,195
£204,936
£238,631
£4,260,825
£87,617
£310,253
£1,010,456
£1,182,991
£90,080
£683,179
£72,880
£206,320
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£771,095
£1,202,370
£196,888
£478,493
£442,068
£894,643
£1,023,950
£635,580
£636,145
£509,215
£491,220
£272,495
£2,956,093
£5,033,563
£1,223,850
£231,860
£1,168,923
£689,518
£416,203
£628,515
£860,685
£1,498,408
£10,366,815
£159,390
£913,475
£1,451,438
£498,468
£335,078
£1,701,553
£240,365
£1,214,963
£409,270
£2,932,988
£512,340
£596,578
£10,652,063
£219,043
£775,633
£2,526,140
£2,957,478
£225,200
£1,707,948
£182,200
£515,800
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Appendix A
LA
Broxtowe
Burnley
Bury
Caerphilly
Calderdale
Cambridge
Camden
Cannock Chase
Canterbury
Cardiff
Carlisle
Carmarthenshire
Castle Point
Central Bedfordshire
Ceredigion
Charnwood
Chelmsford
Cheltenham
Cherwell
Cheshire East
Cheshire West and Chester
Chesterfield
Chichester
Chiltern
Chorley
Christchurch
City of London
Clackmannanshire
Colchester
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
Conwy
Copeland
Corby
Cornwall
Cotswold
Coventry
Craven
Crawley
Croydon
Dacorum
Darlington
Dartford
Daventry
Denbighshire
Derby
Derbyshire Dales
Doncaster
Dover
Dudley
Government
contribution
£116,721
£177,101
£323,579
£382,715
£369,544
£182,516
£1,310,624
£101,520
£220,973
£1,175,868
£165,527
£346,717
£133,566
£288,193
£287,605
£152,421
£206,564
£189,651
£252,398
£488,079
£530,641
£196,093
£251,262
£102,622
£132,369
£86,794
£25,216
£176,383
£423,918
£109,743
£217,097
£171,911
£134,854
£884,013
£94,234
£811,865
£144,792
£286,602
£1,714,777
£304,218
£209,823
£146,988
£83,421
£202,519
£652,164
£65,453
£663,522
£215,835
£655,800
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£291,803
£442,753
£808,948
£956,788
£923,860
£456,290
£3,276,560
£253,800
£552,433
£2,939,670
£413,818
£866,793
£333,915
£720,483
£719,013
£381,053
£516,410
£474,128
£630,995
£1,220,198
£1,326,603
£490,233
£628,155
£256,555
£330,923
£216,985
£63,040
£440,958
£1,059,795
£274,358
£542,743
£429,778
£337,135
£2,210,033
£235,585
£2,029,663
£361,980
£716,505
£4,286,943
£760,545
£524,558
£367,470
£208,553
£506,298
£1,630,410
£163,633
£1,658,805
£539,588
£1,639,500
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Appendix A
LA
Dumfries and Galloway
Dundee
Durham
Ealing
East Ayrshire
East Cambridgeshire
East Devon
East Dorset
East Dunbartonshire
East Hampshire
East Hertfordshire
East Lindsey
East Lothian
East Northamptonshire
East Renfrewshire
East Riding of Yorkshire
East Staffordshire
Eastbourne
Eastleigh
Eden
Edinburgh
Elmbridge
Enfield
Epping Forest
Epsom and Ewell
Erewash
Exeter
Falkirk
Fareham
Fenland
Fife
Flintshire
Forest Heath
Forest of Dean
Fylde
Gateshead
Gedling
Glasgow
Gloucester
Gosport
Gravesham
Great Yarmouth
Greenwich
Guildford
Gwynedd
Hackney
Halton
Hambleton
Hammersmith and Fulham
Government
contribution
£732,662
£484,174
£1,096,133
£3,028,200
£322,608
£110,444
£170,366
£93,759
£102,435
£103,313
£156,347
£221,505
£122,558
£99,565
£67,736
£364,197
£152,422
£248,052
£151,980
£170,805
£1,533,120
£276,673
£2,718,948
£181,853
£117,408
£200,742
£202,716
£258,058
£73,542
£130,639
£693,077
£276,166
£97,752
£112,585
£82,591
£438,929
£121,667
£2,724,843
£252,658
£133,681
£222,398
£234,943
£1,212,140
£186,454
£733,297
£2,110,605
£386,553
£83,451
£1,627,715
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£1,831,655
£1,210,435
£2,740,333
£7,570,500
£806,520
£276,110
£425,915
£234,398
£256,088
£258,283
£390,868
£553,763
£306,395
£248,913
£169,340
£910,493
£381,055
£620,130
£379,950
£427,013
£3,832,800
£691,683
£6,797,370
£454,633
£293,520
£501,855
£506,790
£645,145
£183,855
£326,598
£1,732,693
£690,415
£244,380
£281,463
£206,478
£1,097,323
£304,168
£6,812,108
£631,645
£334,203
£555,995
£587,358
£3,030,350
£466,135
£1,833,243
£5,276,513
£966,383
£208,628
£4,069,288
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Appendix A
LA
Harborough
Haringey
Harlow
Harrogate
Harrow
Hart
Hartlepool
Hastings
Havant
Havering
Herefordshire
Hertsmere
High Peak
Highland
Hillingdon
Hinckley and Bosworth
Horsham
Hounslow
Huntingdonshire
Hyndburn
Inverclyde
Ipswich
Isle of Anglesey
Isle of Wight
Isles of Scilly
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kettering
King's Lynn & West Norfolk
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Thames
Kirklees
Knowsley
Lambeth
Lancaster
Leeds
Leicester
Lewes
Lewisham
Lichfield
Lincoln
Liverpool
Luton
Maidstone
Maldon
Malvern Hills
Manchester
Mansfield
Medway
Government
contribution
£52,436
£2,465,556
£201,023
£152,607
£1,138,954
£66,063
£346,497
£327,607
£186,767
£603,806
£245,440
£205,490
£103,546
£1,178,903
£978,566
£93,957
£117,099
£981,867
£187,398
£162,081
£210,794
£319,340
£156,027
£217,690
£3,810
£1,342,269
£1,792,238
£138,353
£234,007
£801,312
£429,061
£813,758
£660,866
£1,697,994
£200,610
£2,053,229
£828,553
£156,513
£1,667,714
£101,426
£194,308
£2,056,430
£495,559
£257,380
£74,690
£97,271
£2,356,068
£199,491
£598,894
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£131,090
£6,163,890
£502,558
£381,518
£2,847,385
£165,158
£866,243
£819,018
£466,918
£1,509,515
£613,600
£513,725
£258,865
£2,947,258
£2,446,415
£234,893
£292,748
£2,454,668
£468,495
£405,203
£526,985
£798,350
£390,068
£544,225
£9,525
£3,355,673
£4,480,595
£345,883
£585,018
£2,003,280
£1,072,653
£2,034,395
£1,652,165
£4,244,985
£501,525
£5,133,073
£2,071,383
£391,283
£4,169,285
£253,565
£485,770
£5,141,075
£1,238,898
£643,450
£186,725
£243,178
£5,890,170
£498,728
£1,497,235
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Appendix A
LA
Melton
Mendip
Merthyr Tydfil
Merton
Mid Devon
Mid Suffolk
Mid Sussex
Middlesbrough
Midlothian
Milton Keynes
Mole Valley
Monmouthshire
Moray
Neath Port Talbot
New Forest
Newark and Sherwood
Newcastle under Lyme
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newham
Newport
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
Oxford
Pembrokeshire
Pendle
Perth and Kinross
Peterborough
Plymouth
Poole
Government
contribution
£34,997
£152,745
£147,339
£645,538
£83,568
£78,731
£111,707
£595,749
£183,798
£570,211
£84,672
£127,731
£228,368
£371,784
£201,779
£139,440
£150,731
£891,224
£1,973,963
£408,949
£408,703
£124,324
£71,469
£144,487
£337,766
£204,808
£107,365
£692,677
£279,529
£130,876
£394,300
£419,449
£66,478
£106,669
£416,591
£493,987
£411,093
£965,532
£221,057
£48,829
£500,082
£50,592
£514,496
£204,952
£131,966
£380,620
£502,193
£509,776
£263,267
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£87,493
£381,863
£368,348
£1,613,845
£208,920
£196,828
£279,268
£1,489,373
£459,495
£1,425,528
£211,680
£319,328
£570,920
£929,460
£504,448
£348,600
£376,828
£2,228,060
£4,934,908
£1,022,373
£1,021,758
£310,810
£178,673
£361,218
£844,415
£512,020
£268,413
£1,731,693
£698,823
£327,190
£985,750
£1,048,623
£166,195
£266,673
£1,041,478
£1,234,968
£1,027,733
£2,413,830
£552,643
£122,073
£1,250,205
£126,480
£1,286,240
£512,380
£329,915
£951,550
£1,255,483
£1,274,440
£658,168
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Appendix A
LA
Portsmouth
Powys
Preston
Purbeck
Reading
Redbridge
Redcar and Cleveland
Redditch
Reigate and Banstead
Renfrewshire
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Ribble Valley
Richmond upon Thames
Richmondshire
Rochdale
Rochford
Rossendale
Rother
Rotherham
Rugby
Runnymede
Rushcliffe
Rushmoor
Rutland
Ryedale
Salford
Sandwell
Scarborough
Scottish Borders
Sedgemoor
Sefton
Selby
Sevenoaks
Sheffield
Shepway
Shetland
Shropshire
Slough
Solihull
South Ayrshire
South Bucks
South Cambridgeshire
South Derbyshire
South Gloucestershire
South Hams
South Holland
South Kesteven
South Lakeland
South Lanarkshire
Government
contribution
£546,807
£560,638
£282,996
£47,739
£526,806
£1,287,927
£374,842
£119,439
£176,372
£369,000
£541,416
£32,583
£345,614
£112,750
£564,765
£84,980
£90,533
£163,975
£563,670
£116,905
£100,433
£88,686
£151,305
£32,449
£178,378
£840,279
£982,381
£217,866
£464,841
£180,629
£712,009
£88,562
£157,422
£1,040,816
£245,906
£71,267
£383,819
£672,479
£281,765
£305,618
£90,095
£147,992
£91,226
£341,605
£138,756
£107,749
£179,554
£97,389
£638,098
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£1,367,018
£1,401,595
£707,490
£119,348
£1,317,015
£3,219,818
£937,105
£298,598
£440,930
£922,500
£1,353,540
£81,458
£864,035
£281,875
£1,411,913
£212,450
£226,333
£409,938
£1,409,175
£292,263
£251,083
£221,715
£378,263
£81,123
£445,945
£2,100,698
£2,455,953
£544,665
£1,162,103
£451,573
£1,780,023
£221,405
£393,555
£2,602,040
£614,765
£178,168
£959,548
£1,681,198
£704,413
£764,045
£225,238
£369,980
£228,065
£854,013
£346,890
£269,373
£448,885
£243,473
£1,595,245
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Appendix A
LA
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
Sunderland
Surrey Heath
Sutton
Swale
Swansea
Swindon
Tameside
Tamworth
Tandridge
Taunton Deane
Teignbridge
Telford and Wrekin
Tendring
Test Valley
Tewkesbury
Thanet
Three Rivers
Thurrock
Tonbridge and Malling
Torbay
Torfaen
Torridge
Tower Hamlets
Trafford
Tunbridge Wells
Government
contribution
£146,477
£63,178
£155,106
£98,392
£253,296
£103,917
£414,442
£605,863
£519,104
£1,223,174
£202,187
£155,069
£126,720
£531,860
£115,351
£83,089
£183,788
£420,609
£458,616
£446,762
£695,262
£234,222
£126,692
£166,456
£779,296
£67,857
£457,089
£346,325
£528,985
£319,890
£506,466
£113,054
£108,251
£132,559
£156,762
£465,023
£349,477
£153,462
£96,441
£413,270
£145,605
£376,479
£165,494
£393,863
£244,222
£87,490
£2,289,949
£418,222
£158,904
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£366,193
£157,945
£387,765
£245,980
£633,240
£259,793
£1,036,105
£1,514,658
£1,297,760
£3,057,935
£505,468
£387,673
£316,800
£1,329,650
£288,378
£207,723
£459,470
£1,051,523
£1,146,540
£1,116,905
£1,738,155
£585,555
£316,730
£416,140
£1,948,240
£169,643
£1,142,723
£865,813
£1,322,463
£799,725
£1,266,165
£282,635
£270,628
£331,398
£391,905
£1,162,558
£873,693
£383,655
£241,103
£1,033,175
£364,013
£941,198
£413,735
£984,658
£610,555
£218,725
£5,724,873
£1,045,555
£397,260
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014
HB Circular S1/2014
Appendix A
LA
Uttlesford
Vale of Glamorgan
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
Winchester
Windsor and Maidenhead
Wirral
Woking
Wokingham
Wolverhampton
Worcester
Worthing
Wrexham
Wychavon
Wycombe
Wyre
Wyre Forest
York
Government
contribution
£94,624
£244,892
£154,610
£894,091
£737,214
£1,312,285
£1,667,192
£274,128
£185,219
£208,470
£244,735
£143,703
£178,661
£131,716
£177,956
£252,860
£130,961
£124,189
£339,751
£174,368
£131,512
£402,484
£126,249
£173,291
£4,821,711
£143,150
£660,313
£605,227
£101,456
£237,668
£995,795
£151,261
£110,348
£801,977
£186,122
£160,251
£225,644
£139,731
£268,545
£178,487
£160,106
£231,900
£165,000,000
Overall limit
(2.5x)
£236,560
£612,230
£386,525
£2,235,228
£1,843,035
£3,280,713
£4,167,980
£685,320
£463,048
£521,175
£611,838
£359,258
£446,653
£329,290
£444,890
£632,150
£327,403
£310,473
£849,378
£435,920
£328,780
£1,006,210
£315,623
£433,228
£12,054,278
£357,875
£1,650,783
£1,513,068
£253,640
£594,170
£2,489,488
£378,153
£275,870
£2,004,943
£465,305
£400,628
£564,110
£349,328
£671,363
£446,218
£400,265
£579,750
Subsidy circular
29 January 2014