Local Government Finance (Hansard, 28 April 2004)

§ Mr. Raynsford

The following authorities increased their Band D council tax by less than 3 per cent. between 2003–04 and 2004–05:

London boroughs
Camden
Southwark
Wandsworth
Metropolitan districts
Birmingham
Bury
Coventry
Dudley
Kirklees
Knowsley
Manchester
Sandwell
Solihull
St. Helens
Tameside
Wakefield
Walsall
Wigan
Wirral
Wolverhampton
Shire districts
Alnwick
Amber Valley
Ashfield
Babergh
Basingstoke and Deane
Bassetlaw
Blyth Valley
Carlisle
Castle Morpeth
Cheltenham
Chesterfield
Chichester
Craven
Dartford
Derwentside
Easington
East Lindsey
Eastleigh
Fareham
Forest of Dean
Hart
Malvern Hills
Mansfield
Mid Devon
North Warwickshire
Preston
Redditch
Ribble Valley
Rugby
Rushmoor
Sedgemoor
South Cambridgeshire
South Oxfordshire
Stafford
Stroud
Teignbridge
Tewkesbury
Three Rivers
Tynedale
Wansbeck
Watford
Wear Valley
West Lancashire
West Somerset
Worcester
Wychavon
Wycombe

For shire counties and unitary authorities, an asterisk indicates that the percentage increase in the authority's Band D council tax is not less than 3 per cent. when expressed as an increase over its indicative Band D council tax for 2003–04.

An authority's indicative council tax for 2003–04 is the level of council tax consistent with its alternative notional amount, as published in "The Limitation of Council Tax and Precepts (Alternative Notional Amounts) Report (England) 2004/05". Alternative notional amounts have been issued to take account of the change in the financing arrangements for combined fire authorities (CFAs) between 2003–04 and 2004–05, whereby each CFAs has set its own council tax for the first time for 2004–05, instead of receiving a contribution towards its expenses from its constituent authorities.

Indicative council taxes for 2003–04 are available on the ODPM local Government finance website, from the 'Alternative Notional Amounts' menu at http://www.local.odpm.gov.uk/finance/ct.htm.

Shire counties
Bedfordshire^*
Buckinghamshire^*
Cambridgeshire^*
Cheshire^*
Derbyshire Devon^*
Dorset^*
Durham^*
East Sussex^*
Essex^*
Hampshire^*
Kent^*
Lancashire^*
Leicestershire^*
North Yorkshire^*
Nottinghamshire^*
Shropshire^*
Staffordshire^*
Wiltshire^*
Worcestershire^*
Unitary authorities
Bath and North East Somerset^*
Blackburn with Darwen
Bournemouth^*
Brighton and Hove^*
Bristol^*
Darlington^*
Derby^*
East Riding of Yorkshire^*
Halton^*
Hartlepool^*
Kingston-upon-Hull^*
Luton^*
Middlesbrough^*
Milton Keynes^*
North East Lincolnshire^*
North Lincolnshire^*
North Somerset^*
Peterborough^*
Plymouth^*
Poole^*
Portsmouth^*
Reading^*
Redcar and Cleveland^*
Slough^*
South Gloucestershire^*
Southampton^*
Southend-on-Sea^*
Stockton-on-Tees^*
Stoke-on-Trent^*
Swindon^*
Telford and Wrekin^*
Thurrock^*
Warrington^*
Wokingham^*
York^*