§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the average rateable value of a three-bedroomed semi-detached private house for each county or each region, as may be convenient, of England.
§ Mr. King:I regret that the information requested is not available. However, the attached figures are indicative of rateable values derived from estimated assessments of a sample of typical pre-war and post-war three-bedroom semi-detached houses for each county. They provide a 320W very broad indication of relative levels, although the circumstances of particular properties and therefore their rateable values, often vary considerably from these figures.
Rateable values (£) County Pre-war type Post-war type Avon 182 220 Bedfordshire 223 270 Berkshire 250 282 Buckinghamshire 228 270 Cambridge 183 225 Cheshire 203 245 Cleveland 178 213 Cornwall 151 183 Cumbria 167 192 Derbyshire 162 207 Devon 178 211 Dorset 190 240 Durham 162 198 East Sussex 232 266 Essex 245 282 Gloucestershire 187 228 Greater London 334 388 Greater Manchester 203 249 Hampshire 186 258 Hereford and Worcester 197 242 Hertfordshire 262 302 Humberside 167 199 Isle of Wight 182 207 Kent 207 254 Lancashire 173 206 Leicestershire 187 230 Lincolnshire 154 199 Merseyside 203 245 Norfolk 173 212 Northamptonshire 192 236 Northumberland 178 203 North Yorkshire 167 198 Nottinghamshire 163 203 Oxfordshire 228 265 Salop 181 206 Somerset 186 237 South Yorkshire 163 189 Staffordshire 188 239 Suffolk 194 232 Surrey 258 282 Tyne and Wear 184 208 Warwickshire 213 258 West Midlands 221 267 West Sussex 186 223 West Yorkshire 160 198 Wiltshire 173 208