§ 24. Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what representations he has received on the impact on council tax levels in 1998–99 of the abolition of the advance corporation tax credit. [39529]
§ Ms ArmstrongThe Department has received representations from a number of individual local authorities as well as from the Local Government Association and the United Kingdom Steering Committee on Local Authority Pensions, on the impact on local authority budgets of the abolition of advance corporation tax and its effect on the local authority pension scheme. The abolition of ACT should not have affected council tax bills in 1998–99 because it will not start to affect local authorities' pension schemes until the following financial year.