HC Deb 29 November 1960 vol 631 cc28-30W
63. Mr. Mitchison

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what are the latest available figures, relating to rating and valuation, corresponding to the totals for England and Wales as in April, 1959, of Table C in Appendix VIII of his annual report for 1959, Command Paper 1207; what were, in April, 1959, and at the latest available date, the percentages of the total rateable value and of the total rate product, including contributions in lieu of rates, in England and Wales attributable, respectively, to industrial and freight-transport hereditaments, to hereditaments benefiting from abatement under section one of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1957, to dwellings, and to other hereditaments, including property occupied by or on behalf of the Crown in respect of which contributions in lieu of rates are paid.

ENGLAND AND WALES VALUATIONS FOR RATING PURPOSES, APRIL, 1960
(Provisional figures corresponding to the totals set out in the last line of Table C in Appendix VIII of the Report of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1959 (Cmnd. 1027))
Number of separately rated hereditaments … … … … … … … 16,107,694
£
Property occupied by or on behalf of the Crown (value on which contributions in lieu of rates are paid) … … … … … … … … … … … 30,872,859
Industrial hereditaments:
Net annual value of the hereditaments … … … … … … … 151,997,618
Rateable value apportioned to industrial purposes … … … … … 73,967,696
Rateable value apportioned to non-industrial purposes … … … … … 4,003,303
Freight-transport hereditaments:
Net annual value of the hereditaments … … … … … … … 4,886,213
Rateable value apportioned to transport purposes* … … … … … 1,880,527
Rateable value apportioned to non-transport purposes … … … … … 550,739
Hereditaments (other than industrial and freight-transport hereditaments) where net annual value is subject to abatement under Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, or local Acts:
Net annual value … … … … … … … … … … 1,372,587
Rateable value … … … … … … … … … … 953,417
Other hereditaments:
(a) where net annual value is subject to abatement under section 1 of Rating and Valuation Act, 1957:
Net annual value … … … … … … … … … 251,189,005
Rateable value … … … … … … … … … 202,435,324
(b) where net annual value is not subject to abatement:
Rateable value … … … … … … … … … 387,708,990
Total rateable value … … … … … … … … … … 702,372,855
* The figure takes into account abatements (amounting to £571,200) from net annual value by virtue of section 22 (1) (c) of, and Part II of the Second Schedule to, the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925.
PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL RATEABLE VALUE AND TOTAL RATE PRODUCT, ENGLAND AND WALES
Class of Property 1959–60 1960–61
Rateable Values* Percentage of amount† expected to be received in rates Rateable Values* Percentage of amount† expected to be received in rates
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent.
Industrial and freight-transport … … 11.59 11.54 11.45 11.40
Benefiting from abatement under section 1 of Rating and Valuation Act, 1957 … … 28.46 28.34 28.82 28.70
Dwellings … … … … … 47.62 47.43 47.54 47.35
Crown … … … … … … 4.44 4.42 4.39 4.37
Other rateable property … … … 7.89 7.86 7.80 7.77
Railways and canals … … … … — 0.41 — 0.41
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
* Including values entered in the valuation lists as representing the rateable values of hereditaments occupied by or on behalf of the Crown, being the values upon which contributions in aid of rates are computed.
† The estimated amounts to be received in rates for 1959–60 (£648,000,000) and for 1960.61 (£675,000,000) include the British Transport Commission's contributions in lieu of rates in respect of railway and canal hereditaments of £2,654,813 for 1959–60 and £2,734,881 for 1960–61. No statistics are available to show the amount of rates collected in respect of different classes of hereditament. The percentages in columns (3) and (5) are calculated on the assumption that, apart from the British Transport Commission's contributions, the amounts will have been charged on the respective classes of property in column (1) in proportion to the percentages in columns (2) and (4).

Mr. H. Brooke

The figures are as follows: