§ Mr. Nigel GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the rent threshold figures giving the maximum housing benefit subsidy for each local authority area from April.
§ Mr. PortilloThe table gives the threshold figure set for each rent registration area (county or London borough) for 1988–89. Each authority's threshold is the same as that of the registration area in which it is located.
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Authority Rent Threshold 1988–89 £ per week Barking 56.58 Barnet 77.32 Bexley 57.32 Brent 62.43
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Authority Rent Threshold 1988–89 £ per week Bromley 71.67 City 85.97 Camden 88.09 Croydon 74.41 Ealing 70.55 Enfield 60.69 Greenwich 55.13 Hackney 59.55 Hammersmith 61.85 Haringey 63.91 Harrow 66.02 Havering 63.53 Hillingdon 66.71 Hounslow 69.75 Islington 64.15 Kensington and Chelsea 76.31 Kingston 71.15 Lambeth 62.89 Lewisham 54.41 Merton 72.77 Newham 54.88 Redbridge 55.54 Richmond 74.83 Southwark 56.41 Sutton 68.96 Tower Hamlets 58.83 Waltham Forest 48.73 Wandsworth 69.64 Westminster 114.89 Merseyside 41.96 Cheshire 45.80 Greater Manchester 50.30 Lancashire 60.48 West Midlands 39.05 Hereford and Worcester 46.45 Shropshire 44.65 Staffordshire 39.19 Warwickshire 38.76 Tyne and Wear 39.27 Cleveland 41.71 Cumbria 31.00 Durham 38.89 Northumberland 43.50 Humberside 34.89 North Yorkshire 43.55 South Yorkshire 36.84 West Yorkshire 38.93 Derbyshire 38.42 Leicestershire 39.19 Lincolnshire 41.53 Northamptonshire 43.69 Nottinghamshire 40.98 Essex 47.30 Norfolk 47.38 Suffolk 44.65 Bedfordshire 43.00 Berkshire 50.83 Buckinghamshire 48.51 Cambridgeshire 47.33 Hertfordshire 42.88 Oxfordshire 54.48 East Sussex 53.27 Kent 54.63 Surrey 52.34 West Sussex 50.98 Dorset 45.32 Hampshire 47.68 Isle of Wight 43.22 Avon 52.34 Gloucestershire 49.15 Somerset 45.42 Wiltshire 49.69 Cornwall 51.95 Devon 51.53 Clwyd 40.70
Authority Rent Threshold 1988–89 £ per week Dyfed 44.00 Gwent 39.61 Gwynedd 35.24 Mid-Glamorgan 41.63 Powys 38.54 South Glamorgan 48.31 West Glamorgan 39.32 Borders Region 72.00 Central 72.99 Dumfries and Galloway 60.94 Fife 61.72 Grampian 63.50 Highland 54.50 Lothian 62.08 Strathclyde 55.03 Tayside 64.88 Islands 37.06