HC Deb 25 November 1970 vol 807 c121W
60. Mr. Ashton

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what estimates he has made of the percentage rate increases that local authorities will have to levy from April, 1971.

Mr. Graham Page

Local authorities generally have yet to decide what their rate poundages will be for 1971–72. It is therefore too early to give any reliable forecast of the level of rate increases next year.