§ Mr. PickthallTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the average cost of a valuation investigation for an appeal against council tax banding.
§ Mr. NelsonThe estimated average cost of processing a council tax appeal in the current financial year in England is £115. This estimate includes Valuation Office agency and valuation tribunal costs.
§ Mr. PickthallTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the number of outstanding appeals against council tax bandings at each valuation office as at 1 January.
§ Mr. NelsonThe number of outstanding appeals against council tax bandings in England and Wales as at 1 January 1994 is as follows:
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Number East Anglia Bedford 7,548 Cambridge 7,327 Chelmsford 11,532 Colchester 13,075 Ipswich 8,260 Norwich 11,311 Peterborough 9,219 St. Albans 7,167 Stevenage 6,371 East Midlands Derby 8,729 Doncaster 4,408 Grimsby 5,053 Hull 6,439 Leicester 4,815 Lincoln 7,626 Loughborough 6,212 Mansfield 5,532 Northampton 5,409 Nottingham 5,473 Sheffield 6,009 London Barking 3,340 Bromley 14,122 Camden 6,095 City of London 199 Ealing 7,028 Enfield 15,634 Greenwich 9,315 Harrow 7,193 Islington 6,824 Kensington 12,386 Lambeth 10,137 Redbridge 4,864 Tower Hamlets 2,861 Westminster 1 2,403 Westminster 2 4,452 149W
Number Wimbledon 9,841 North Western Bolton 4,207 Burnley 6,322 Chester 5,262 Crewe 7,786 Lancaster 6,957 Liverpool 6,697 Manchester 1,712 Preston 5,455 Rochdale 2,342 Salford 4,135 Stockport 5,457 Warrington 7,394 Northern Alnwick 5,464 Bradford 3,987 Carlisle 5,395 Durham 6,558 Halifax 7,490 Harrogate 9,742 Leeds 6,283 Middlesbrough 3,137 Newcastle 3,320 Sunderland 3,267 Ulverston 5,006 York 8,029 South Eastern Brighton 7,883 Chatham 5,228 Eastbourne 7,806 Folkestone 6,487 Guildford 9,033 Reigate 11,127 Tunbridge Wells 13,288 Worthing 11,217 Southern Aylesbury 12,178 Basingstoke 8,861 Bournemouth 9,259 Dorchester 7,034 Oxford 11,557 Portsmouth 5,135 Portsmouth (IOW) 3,083 Reading 13,038 Southampton 12,212 Swindon 9,988 Western Barnstaple 6,192 Bath 6,298 Bristol 8,647 Exeter 10,277 Gloucester 13,340 Plymouth 9,296 St. Austell 9,711 Taunton 9,968 West Midland Birmingham 6,335 Coventry 5,014 Kidderminster 5,283 Lichfield 4,651 Sandwell 1,197 Shrewsbury 8,934 Stoke-on-Trent 5,451 Warwick 8,026 Wolverhampton 4,083 Worcester 10,769 Wales Bangor 5,210 Cardiff 4,166 Carmarthen 10,186
Number Merthyr Tydfil 4,418 Newport 4,365 Pontypridd 2,861 Swansea 4,529 Wrexham 6,037
§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will show for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland separately the forecast of council tax receipts contained in line 5 of table 6.11 in the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" 1994–95.
§ Mr. PortilloDisaggregated projections of council tax receipts in 1993–94 and 1994–95 are not available.