§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what assessment he has made of the impact on the band D equivalent council tax of a single person discount of 50 per cent. instead of 25 per cent.
§ Mr. Robin Squire[holding answer 26 November 1992]: On the basis of the provisional taxbase information provided by local authorities for consultation purposes, it is estimated that a 50 per cent. single person discount would reduce the national taxbase by just over 8 per cent. This means that the headline council tax for two adults would need to be about 9 per cent. higher in order to raise any given amount of revenue. For single person households the combined effect of the increased discount but higher basic tax rates would be a reduction of about 27 per cent.
§ Mr. HendersonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing, for each region, the total number of band D discounted equivalents for council tax purposes form CTB1, row 11, total of columns 1 to 8 and the total number of dwellings on the valuation list, form CTB1, row 8, column 9, and a table showing comparable information for each region imputed from the illustrative council tax figures produced by his Department in 1991.
§ Mr. Robin Squire[holding answer 20 November 1992]: The information requested is as follows: 157W
Region Taxbase March 1991 (millions) Dwellings March 1991 (millions) Taxbase September 1992 (millions) Dwellings September 1992 (millions) Total 16.761 18.923 16.270 19.950