§ 10. Mr. HawkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what representations he has received on the cost to local government pension funds in 1998–99 of the abolition of advance corporation tax credit. [39514]
§ Ms ArmstrongRepresentations have been received 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.
§ 12. Mr. ViggersTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what estimate he has made of the percentage change which will be required in council tax rates in order to take account of changes to the taxation of local government pension funds in the last year. [39516]
§ Ms ArmstrongNo estimates of cost implications can be made until the results of the actuarial valuations of the local authority pension funds as at 31 March 1998 are known later this year.