HC Deb 22 March 1971 vol 814 c33W
Mr. Wiggin

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the total rates payable, in the last year, for an exactly similar, average, domestic dwelling, levelling the parish contribution, in the boroughs, urban districts and rural districts of the present County of Somerset, the Cities of Bristol and Bath, the Urban District of Kings-wood and Mangotsfield and the Rural Districts of Sodbury, Thornbury and Warmby.

Mr. Graham Page

I regret that this information is not available. But in 1970–71 the amounts payable in rates in each of these areas for a house of the average rateable value for the area were as follows:

Somerset (County Council area) £40.71
Bath C.B. £49.89
Bristol C.B. £47.51
Kingswood U.D. £46.93
Mangotsfield U.D. £53.50
Sodbury R.D. £41.22
Thornbury R.D. £39.56
Warmby R.D. £41.68