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Guidance Manual

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Introduction

1. Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) funding is available for those entitled to Housing Benefit or the Housing Element of Universal Credit who require further financial assistance with housing costs.

2. This circular provides details of the government contribution and overall expenditure limit for DHP for the financial years ending March 2024 and March 2025.

Funding

3. In order to provide local authorities (LAs) with consistency and certainty to plan delivery over the next two years, DHP听funding for England and Wales for the听financial years ending听March 2024 and March 2025 is confirmed at 拢100 million per year. This is consistent with the total funding provided to LAs in the financial year ending (FYE) March 2023.

4. LAs will receive the same allocation level as they received in FYE March 2023. This was considered the fairest approach given broader economic pressures.

5. The individual allocations shown in Annex A are the full government contribution for each LA from the 拢100 million DHP fund for the FYE March 2024.

6. LA allocations for the FYE March 2025 will be confirmed through a circular before the end of the FYE 2024. It is expected LAs will receive the same amount as FYE March 2024. However, there may be a slight adjustment if any LAs were to merge in FYE March 2025.

7. Any unspent funds from FYE March 2023 and March 2024 cannot be carried over to subsequent years.

Expenditure limit

8. In addition to the central government contribution, English and Welsh LAs are able to top up听DHP听funding up to a maximum of two and a half times this figure using their own funds.

Annex A: 拢100 million Discretionary Housing Payment government contribution local authority allocations for financial year ending 2024

LA听	Total (拢100 million) DHP allocation for FYE March 2024	Top-up limit (x2.5 allocation)
Adur	拢87,973	拢219,933
Amber Valley	拢122,855	拢307,138
Arun	拢225,903	拢564,758
Ashfield	拢148,984	拢372,460
Ashford	拢196,507	拢491,268
Babergh	拢86,572	拢216,430
Barking and Dagenham	拢727,763	拢1,819,408
Barnet	拢1,474,953	拢3,687,383
Barnsley	拢389,289	拢973,223
Basildon	拢323,563	拢808,908
Basingstoke and Deane	拢231,553	拢578,883
Bassetlaw	拢125,261	拢313,153
Bath and North East Somerset	拢193,278	拢483,195
Bedford	拢237,954	拢594,885
Bexley	拢385,556	拢963,890
Birmingham	拢2,689,243	拢6,723,108
Blaby	拢63,060	拢157,650
Blackburn with Darwen	拢227,242	拢568,105
Blackpool	拢192,583	拢481,458
Blaenau Gwent	拢140,170	拢350,425
Bolsover	拢92,696	拢231,740
Bolton	拢459,755	拢1,149,388
Boston	拢75,494	拢188,735
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	拢645,158	拢1,612,895
Bracknell Forest	拢143,414	拢358,535
Bradford	拢847,980	拢2,119,950
Braintree	拢178,477	拢446,193
Breckland	拢140,158	拢350,395
Brent	拢1,620,155	拢4,050,388
Brentwood	拢90,930	拢227,325
Bridgend	拢258,312	拢645,780
Brighton and Hove	拢645,514	拢1,613,785
Bristol, City of	拢740,869	拢1,852,173
Broadland	拢82,733	拢206,833
Bromley	拢512,968	拢1,282,420
Bromsgrove	拢62,332	拢155,830
Broxbourne	拢258,140	拢645,350
Broxtowe	拢83,603	拢209,008
Buckinghamshire	拢623,616	拢1,559,040
Burnley	拢148,472	拢371,180
Bury	拢209,441	拢523,603
Caerphilly	拢339,277	拢848,193
Calderdale	拢340,648	拢851,620
Cambridge	拢138,217	拢345,543
Camden	拢622,578	拢1,556,445
Cannock Chase	拢85,409	拢213,523
Canterbury	拢197,748	拢494,370
Cardiff	拢781,533	拢1,953,833
Carmarthenshire	拢268,324	拢670,810
Castle Point	拢148,138	拢370,345
Central Bedfordshire	拢247,516	拢618,790
Ceredigion	拢275,132	拢687,830
Charnwood	拢135,431	拢338,578
Chelmsford	拢202,891	拢507,228
Cheltenham	拢106,443	拢266,108
Cherwell	拢187,383	拢468,458
Cheshire East	拢348,661	拢871,653
Cheshire West and Chester	拢375,530	拢938,825
Chesterfield	拢140,446	拢351,115
Chichester	拢145,722	拢364,305
Chorley	拢106,566	拢266,415
City of London	拢13,611	拢34,028
Colchester	拢258,862	拢647,155
Conwy	拢176,335	拢440,838
Cornwall	拢755,235	拢1,888,088
Cotswold	拢71,475	拢178,688
County Durham	拢836,254	拢2,090,635
Coventry	拢731,530	拢1,828,825
Crawley	拢227,592	拢568,980
Croydon	拢1,241,242	拢3,103,105
Cumberland	拢340,232	拢850,580
Dacorum	拢246,208	拢615,520
Darlington	拢154,394	拢385,985
Dartford	拢178,490	拢446,225
Denbighshire	拢171,145	拢427,863
Derby	拢332,258	拢830,645
Derbyshire Dales	拢57,865	拢144,663
Doncaster	拢497,602	拢1,244,005
Dorset	拢458,298	拢1,145,745
Dover	拢176,439	拢441,098
Dudley	拢473,000	拢1,182,500
Ealing	拢1,458,664	拢3,646,660
East Cambridgeshire	拢67,716	拢169,290
East Devon	拢149,659	拢374,148
East Hampshire	拢88,281	拢220,703
East Hertfordshire	拢169,250	拢423,125
East Lindsey	拢208,153	拢520,383
East Riding of Yorkshire	拢329,687	拢824,218
East Staffordshire	拢114,778	拢286,945
East Suffolk	拢297,949	拢744,873
Eastbourne	拢241,581	拢603,953
Eastleigh	拢123,292	拢308,230
Elmbridge	拢196,640	拢491,600
Enfield	拢1,670,771	拢4,176,928
Epping Forest	拢104,045	拢260,113
Epsom and Ewell	拢114,414	拢286,035
Erewash	拢116,528	拢291,320
Exeter	拢133,300	拢333,250
Fareham	拢86,557	拢216,393
Fenland	拢127,604	拢319,010
Flintshire	拢205,365	拢513,413
Folkestone and Hythe	拢205,129	拢512,823
Forest of Dean	拢71,991	拢179,978
Fylde	拢79,316	拢198,290
Gateshead	拢353,382	拢883,455
Gedling	拢103,352	拢258,380
Gloucester	拢187,557	拢468,893
Gosport	拢64,080	拢160,200
Gravesham	拢178,908	拢447,270
Great Yarmouth	拢174,349	拢435,873
Greenwich	拢665,818	拢1,664,545
Guildford	拢149,866	拢374,665
Gwynedd	拢650,017	拢1,625,043
Hackney	拢1,192,513	拢2,981,283
Halton	拢279,321	拢698,303
Hammersmith and Fulham	拢595,540	拢1,488,850
Harborough	拢51,889	拢129,723
Haringey	拢1,192,612	拢2,981,530
Harlow	拢171,557	拢428,893
Harrow	拢695,591	拢1,738,978
Hart	拢89,597	拢223,993
Hartlepool	拢233,796	拢584,490
Hastings	拢220,901	拢552,253
Havant	拢166,157	拢415,393
Havering	拢465,294	拢1,163,235
Herefordshire, County of	拢192,609	拢481,523
Hertsmere	拢219,612	拢549,030
High Peak	拢81,184	拢202,960
Hillingdon	拢674,526	拢1,686,315
Hinckley and Bosworth	拢78,739	拢196,848
Horsham	拢130,731	拢326,828
Hounslow	拢834,254	拢2,085,635
Huntingdonshire	拢163,009	拢407,523
Hyndburn	拢128,711	拢321,778
Ipswich	拢199,861	拢499,653
Isle of Anglesey	拢123,008	拢307,520
Isle of Wight	拢225,653	拢564,133
Isles of Scilly	拢386	拢965
Islington	拢629,184	拢1,572,960
Kensington and Chelsea	拢568,616	拢1,421,540
King鈥檚 Lynn and West Norfolk	拢183,294	拢458,235
Kingston upon Hull, City of	拢547,296	拢1,368,240
Kingston upon Thames	拢320,701	拢801,753
Kirklees	拢457,165	拢1,142,913
Knowsley	拢390,985	拢977,463
Lambeth	拢951,920	拢2,379,800
Lancaster	拢186,464	拢466,160
Leeds	拢1,190,379	拢2,975,948
Leicester	拢626,948	拢1,567,370
Lewes	拢167,898	拢419,745
Lewisham	拢924,089	拢2,310,223
Lichfield	拢73,830	拢184,575
Lincoln	拢132,330	拢330,825
Liverpool	拢1,175,423	拢2,938,558
Luton	拢481,678	拢1,204,195
Maidstone	拢231,984	拢579,960
Maldon	拢59,743	拢149,358
Malvern Hills	拢75,651	拢189,128
Manchester	拢1,396,135	拢3,490,338
Mansfield	拢90,874	拢227,185
Medway	拢484,162	拢1,210,405
Melton	拢35,685	拢89,213
Merthyr Tydfil	拢144,200	拢360,500
Merton	拢430,653	拢1,076,633
Mid Devon	拢77,202	拢193,005
Mid Suffolk	拢70,059	拢175,148
Mid Sussex	拢153,750	拢384,375
Middlesbrough	拢398,209	拢995,523
Milton Keynes	拢463,575	拢1,158,938
Mole Valley	拢77,766	拢194,415
Monmouthshire	拢119,074	拢297,685
Neath Port Talbot	拢291,401	拢728,503
New Forest	拢203,218	拢508,045
Newark and Sherwood	拢106,928	拢267,320
Newcastle upon Tyne	拢600,199	拢1,500,498
Newcastle-under-Lyme	拢111,031	拢277,578
Newham	拢1,373,258	拢3,433,145
Newport	拢380,372	拢950,930
North Devon	拢120,076	拢300,190
North East Derbyshire	拢99,045	拢247,613
North East Lincolnshire	拢244,219	拢610,548
North Hertfordshire	拢143,846	拢359,615
North Kesteven	拢86,931	拢217,328
North Lincolnshire	拢145,993	拢364,983
North Norfolk	拢103,037	拢257,593
North Northamptonshire	拢387,317	拢968,293
North Somerset	拢271,399	拢678,498
North Tyneside	拢306,562	拢766,405
North Warwickshire	拢60,256	拢150,640
North West Leicestershire	拢81,022	拢202,555
North Yorkshire Council	拢854,306	拢2,135,765
Northumberland	拢395,885	拢989,713
Norwich	拢258,729	拢646,823
Nottingham	拢628,697	拢1,571,743
Nuneaton and Bedworth	拢166,978	拢417,445
Oadby and Wigston	拢56,271	拢140,678
Oldham	拢428,970	拢1,072,425
Oxford	拢253,638	拢634,095
Pembrokeshire	拢198,191	拢495,478
Pendle	拢105,741	拢264,353
Peterborough	拢373,781	拢934,453
Plymouth	拢423,350	拢1,058,375
Portsmouth	拢428,432	拢1,071,080
Powys	拢527,613	拢1,319,033
Preston	拢214,140	拢535,350
Reading	拢367,440	拢918,600
Redbridge	拢898,622	拢2,246,555
Redcar and Cleveland	拢270,448	拢676,120
Redditch	拢79,296	拢198,240
Reigate and Banstead	拢182,823	拢457,058
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	拢404,038	拢1,010,095
Ribble Valley	拢36,448	拢91,120
Richmond upon Thames	拢303,855	拢759,638
Rochdale	拢380,421	拢951,053
Rochford	拢87,518	拢218,795
Rossendale	拢69,985	拢174,963
Rother	拢143,672	拢359,180
Rotherham	拢427,584	拢1,068,960
Rugby	拢112,474	拢281,185
Runnymede	拢117,986	拢294,965
Rushcliffe	拢84,908	拢212,270
Rushmoor	拢160,572	拢401,430
Rutland	拢22,594	拢56,485
Salford	拢539,340	拢1,348,350
Sandwell	拢714,430	拢1,786,075
Sefton	拢495,361	拢1,238,403
Sevenoaks	拢142,028	拢355,070
Sheffield	拢743,428	拢1,858,570
Shropshire	拢309,310	拢773,275
Slough	拢501,546	拢1,253,865
Solihull	拢239,499	拢598,748
Somerset	拢687,570	拢1,718,925
South Cambridgeshire	拢110,515	拢276,288
South Derbyshire	拢85,732	拢214,330
South Gloucestershire	拢252,639	拢631,598
South Hams	拢93,848	拢234,620
South Holland	拢87,577	拢218,943
South Kesteven	拢155,861	拢389,653
South Norfolk	拢115,933	拢289,833
South Oxfordshire	拢135,465	拢338,663
South Ribble	拢85,446	拢213,615
South Staffordshire	拢87,179	拢217,948
South Tyneside	拢308,014	拢770,035
Southampton	拢449,031	拢1,122,578
Southend-on-Sea	拢409,532	拢1,023,830
Southwark	拢817,657	拢2,044,143
Spelthorne	拢202,932	拢507,330
St Albans	拢143,269	拢358,173
St. Helens	拢340,641	拢851,603
Stafford	拢93,829	拢234,573
Staffordshire Moorlands	拢64,731	拢161,828
Stevenage	拢141,827	拢354,568
Stockport	拢283,604	拢709,010
Stockton-on-Tees	拢314,139	拢785,348
Stoke-on-Trent	拢408,213	拢1,020,533
Stratford-on-Avon	拢116,848	拢292,120
Stroud	拢58,498	拢146,245
Sunderland	拢269,369	拢673,423
Surrey Heath	拢80,854	拢202,135
Sutton	拢346,556	拢866,390
Swale	拢260,758	拢651,895
Swansea	拢395,685	拢989,213
Swindon	拢294,823	拢737,058
Tameside	拢388,501	拢971,253
Tamworth	拢98,331	拢245,828
Tandridge	拢113,042	拢282,605
Teignbridge	拢163,919	拢409,798
Telford and Wrekin	拢331,146	拢827,865
Tendring	拢294,172	拢735,430
Test Valley	拢119,892	拢299,730
Tewkesbury	拢70,492	拢176,230
Thanet	拢330,521	拢826,303
The Vale of Glamorgan	拢194,041	拢485,103
Three Rivers	拢127,690	拢319,225
Thurrock	拢373,896	拢934,740
Tonbridge and Malling	拢158,698	拢396,745
Torbay	拢314,561	拢786,403
Torfaen	拢189,926	拢474,815
Torridge	拢70,333	拢175,833
Tower Hamlets	拢1,161,275	拢2,903,188
Trafford	拢288,315	拢720,788
Tunbridge Wells	拢129,046	拢322,615
Uttlesford	拢79,657	拢199,143
Vale of White Horse	拢121,338	拢303,345
Wakefield	拢548,018	拢1,370,045
Walsall	拢540,168	拢1,350,420
Waltham Forest	拢788,626	拢1,971,565
Wandsworth	拢787,211	拢1,968,028
Warrington	拢199,974	拢499,935
Warwick	拢116,985	拢292,463
Watford	拢210,139	拢525,348
Waverley	拢113,643	拢284,108
Wealden	拢170,709	拢426,773
Welwyn Hatfield	拢182,366	拢455,915
West Berkshire	拢181,226	拢453,065
West Devon	拢127,233	拢318,083
West Lancashire	拢145,991	拢364,978
West Lindsey	拢105,255	拢263,138
West Northamptonshire	拢435,684	拢1,089,210
West Oxfordshire	拢107,528	拢268,820
West Suffolk	拢168,976	拢422,440
Westminster	拢867,782	拢2,169,455
Westmoreland and Furness	拢292,634	拢731,585
Wigan	拢436,756	拢1,091,890
Wiltshire	拢320,453	拢801,133
Winchester	拢104,807	拢262,018
Windsor and Maidenhead	拢178,617	拢446,543
Wirral	拢551,637	拢1,379,093
Woking	拢131,398	拢328,495
Wokingham	拢145,121	拢362,803
Wolverhampton	拢539,869	拢1,349,673
Worcester	拢119,200	拢298,000
Worthing	拢153,637	拢384,093
Wrexham	拢226,072	拢565,180
Wychavon	拢112,099	拢280,248
Wyre	拢138,017	拢345,043
Wyre Forest	拢110,242	拢275,605
York	拢163,991	拢409,978