§ Mr. Jim Marshallasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if, in order to assist public consideration of the Lay-field Report, he will provide an estimate of the administrative costs of implementing and operating a system of local income tax.
§ Mr. John SilkinI have for the moment nothing to add to the Layfield Committee's estimate that the cheapest form of local income tax it considered would impose a public and private cost for its operation of about £100 million a year.