§ Mr. DewarTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish an analysis of inter-regional transfers within England in 1990–91 and 1991–92 due to the operation of the uniform business rate, in a similar form to the tables placed in the Library, pursuant to his answer of 29 April,Official Report, columns 9–10.
§ Mr. PortilloThe available information is as follows:
315WProvisional contributions from local authorities to the non-domestic rates pool do not represent the total amounts of non-domestic rates paid to the pool for each region, because
(i) properties on the Central and Crown lists make payments direct to the non-domestic rates pool. It is not known how much of the total yield from these properties relates to each region.
(ii) the provisional contributions made by local authorities to the non-domestic rates pool are calculated on the basis of the rateable value of properties on the local rating list as at 31 December the previous year.
Information about the actual rates payable in respect of 1990–91 is not likely to be available till November 1991.
§ Ms. GordonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will estimate the average amount each domestic ratepayer was charged to cover the shortfall caused by non-collection in 1989.
§ Ms. GordonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the total amount of community charge remaining uncollected in Tower Hamlets in April.
§ Mr. KeyI refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Esher (Mr. Taylor) on 4 July at column181.
§ Ms. GordonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for each local authority in London(a) the number of individuals who are liable to pay community charge and (b) the number who are exempt from the charge distinguished by exemption category.
§ Mr. KeyThe available information on the number of people liable, at 31 March 1991, to make a payment in respect of a personal community charge for each local authority in London is given in the table. For information on the numbers exempt, by exemption category, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen) on 20 December 1990 at col267.
Number of people liable to make a payment in respect of a personal community charge by 31 March 1991 Number London boroughs Barking and Dagenham 109,903 Barnet Not av. Bexley 179,000 Brent Not av. Bromley 255,000 Camden Not av. City of London 3,655 Croydon 260,266 Ealing 207,000 Enfield 269,366 Greenwich 160,000 Hackney 143,620 Hammersmith and Fulham 126,036 Haringey 173,600 Harrow 158,987 Havering 189,871 Hillingdon 195,197 Hounslow 183,420 Islington 141,600 Kensington and Chelsea 117,000 Kingston-upon-Thames 133,616 Lambeth 186,013 Lewisham Not av. Merton 149,532 Newham 161,003
316W
"HIP1 All Items Print"—column references Local Authority Housing Authority Other Public Sector1 Private Sector 1979 B41 B42+B432 B44 B45 1980 A81 A82+A832 A84 A85 1981 to 1984 A71 A72 A73 A74 1985 to 1989 A81 A82 A83 A84 1990 A71 A72 A73 A74
Number Redbridge 227,417 Richmond-upon-Thames 146,888 Southwark 176,426 Tower Hamlets 126,665 Waltham Forest 185,000 Wandsworth 213,000 Westminster 158,896