§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many people have been exempted from paying the community charge in each category of exemption in the Doncaster local authority area.
§ Mr. KeyThe information returned by the local authority is as follows:
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Numbers of persons exempt from community charge, 1 June 1990 Number Severely mentally impaired 418 Patients whose main residence is a National Health Service hospital 545 People whose sole or main residence is in a residential care home, a nursing home, a private hospital or a hostel providing care, who are receiving care 1,676 Aged 18 and in receipt of child benefit, or aged 18 or 19 and on full-time courses of further education 542 Members of religious communities 34 Others1 24
1 People in detention, members of visiting forces, international headquarters and defence organisations and their dependants, including diplomats. These categories have been combined because of the small numbers involved.
§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table of expenditure on city grant in 1989–90, showing final expenditure for the year broken down by standard region, with Greater London shown as a separate region.
§ Mr. KeyThe information requested is as follows:
£ East Midlands 3,368,489 London 695,633 Merseyside 279,238 Northern 1,762,354 North West 1,653,486 South West 16,387 West Midlands 2,957,808 Yorkshire and Humberside 760,632 Total 11,494,027 This excludes city grant in urban development corporations.
§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table showing the expected income from the uniform business rate in 1990–91, broken down by standard regions with Greater London shown as a separate region and a similar table showing the level of income had no transitional arrangement been in place.
§ Mr. KeyThe information is not available in exactly the form requested. The following table shows the estimated gross income from non-domestic rates for each region before and after the transitional arrangements are applied. The figures do not include the effects of reliefs for empty or charitable property or other reliefs nor any allowance for losses in collection.
Gross yield (£m) Without transitional arrangements With transitional arrangements Northern 386 483 Yorks and Humberside 682 800 North West 858 1,100 East Midlands 559 620 West Midlands 713 888 East Anglia 341 316 London 3,462 2,882 South East 2,214 1,985 South West 719 666 England 9,915 9,741 Gross yield without transition is equal to the gross rateable value on proposed local rating lists at 20 December 1989 multiplied by the 1990–91 non-domestic multiplier. Properties on the central rating list and Crown property are excluded.