§ Mr. CryerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he intends that non-payment, deferred payment, or part payment of the poll tax will disqualify a person from voting; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. HowardI have made clear repeatedly that registration for, and payment of, the community charge will be quite separate from electoral registration. No person will be disqualified from voting for any reason connected with the community charge.
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in full the data on which was based the claim in his Department's news release number 460 of 12 November that introducing local income tax would, on average increase income tax by 6p in the £; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. HowardThe total amount assumed to be raised from local income tax (LIT) was the net yield of domestic rates in England in 1987–88 (£8,100 million) less an amount attributable to rebates (£1,500 million). This was divided by the estimated yield of an extra 1p on the standard rate of income tax in England (£1,100 million), to produce an average LIT rate of 6p.
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of the way in which the poll tax will be levied on full-time students in higher education doing(a) first degree courses and (b) higher degree courses.
§ Mr. HowardFull-time students will be liable to pay only 20 per cent, of the community charge and will be 43W treated as having their sole or main residence in the places where they are resident for the purpose of undertaking their courses.