HC Deb 25 June 1981 vol 7 cc182-3W
Mr. Straw

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report details of the total non-domestic rate poundage for each metropolitan and non-metropolitan county in England, including both local and country precepts, in 1981–82 and in each of the previous four years.

Mr. King

Local authority returns indicate that average non-domestic general rate poundages—including district rates and county and parish precepts—from 1977–78 to 1981–82 were as set out on attached tables.

Average Non-Domestic Poundage
Shire Counties 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82
Avon 81.0 86.0 107.0 129.1 134.4
Bedfordshire 94.2 100.6 109.9 126.7 138.4
Berkshire 78.3 86.3 99.0 118.6 131.1
Buckinghamshire 77.2 81.6 96.8 117.8 130.9
Cambridgeshire 78.7 90.5 99.5 120.4 134.7
Cheshire 85.5 96.9 106.7 132.2 139.8
Cleveland 88.4 91.9 101.7 142£.8 157.3
Cornwall 68.7 74.7 92.2 109.5 120.7
Cumbria 79.6 88.0 100.1 119.3 139.1
Derbyshire 79.7 85.3 94.4 113.4 132.8
Devon 73.6 80.0 94.0 111.7 121.1
Dorset 79.8 86.6 102.8 125.5 136.5
Durham 81.6 90.4 107.9 133.5 151.2
East Sussex 85.5 91.7 103.3 122.2 134.5
Essex 76.1 83.2 97.2 114.6 127.5
Gloucestershire 75.7 82.7 95.3 112.4 132.8
Hampshire 83.4 88.2 98.5 122.0 133.0
Hereford and Worcester 83.8 89.7 98.4 119.5 133.8
Hertfordshire 87.9 94.5 104.1 123.6 138.5
Humberside 76.2 80.9 89.8 118.4 116.3
Isle of Wight 77.7 89.0 109.5 124.6 133.6
Kent 78.4 87.3 100.7 116.6 128.9
Lancashire 79.7 85.6 99.9 112.9 126.9
Leicestershire 69.0 77.4 90.9 110.2 119.4
Lincolnshire 77.4 83.0 100.8 119.1 131.8
Norfolk 79.1 85.2 92.3 110.2 128.7
Northamptonshire 78.7 86.1 94.5 117.2 127.9
Northumberland 83.3 92.5 108.4 130.9 150.0
North Yorkshire 75.5 87.2 96.4 115.6 130.3
Nottinghamshire 76.4 78.7 84.8 97.6 111.1
Oxfordshire 81.4 86.3 97.9 118.5 129.4
Salop 75.4 82.3 95.0 118.6 132.9
Somerset 73.9 83.4 99.6 120.2 127.4
Staffordshire 82.3 92.7 100.9 120.6 129.4
Suffolk 76.6 84.1 97.9 122.1 136.6
Surrey 84.9 91.6 97.9 116.5 125.8
Warwickshire 77.6 86.5 103.1 126.3 134.3
West Sussex 75.8 84.5 99.4 114.4 128.9
Wiltshire 78.0 81.8 98.7 124.4 132.1