Rate Revenues (National Income Percentage)

HC Deb 30 June 1953 vol 517 cc12-3W

Sir G. Lloyd

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of the national income was represented by local rate revenues for each of the years 1947 to 1952.

Mr. R. A. Butler

The percentage of the gross national product represented by revenues from local rates is as follows:

	Per cent.
1947	3.3
1948	3.1
1949	3.0
1950	2.9
1951	2.9
1952	2.9

The figures from which these percentages are derived are stated in Preliminary Estimates of National Income and Expenditure 1948–52 (Cmd. 8803) and in National Income and Expenditure 1946–51.