Disclosed is a wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method wherein flexible frequency scheduling is performed without increasing the scale of the DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform) circuitry. For example, when resource allocation information is reported indicating whether or not a resource has been allocated to each of a plurality of RBGs (RB groups) into which the system bandwidth is divided, as in Type 0 allocation, if the number of reported RBs reported by the resource allocation information cannot be expressed as “2̂n×3̂m×5̂l”, an allocated RB number setting section (208) sets the number of allocated resource blocks used in the actual transmission band, corresponding to the reported RB number, to the number of resource blocks that can be represented by any of “2̂n×3̂m×5̂l”, and an allocated RB selection section (209); selects the allocated RB employed in the actual transmission band from the resource allocation information and allocated RB number