HC Deb 02 February 1977 vol 925 cc202-3W
48. Mr. Rippon

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment which districts in Northumberland would have received additional rate relief, and to what extent, if the scheme of variable domestic relief proposed in White Paper, Command Paper No. 5532, had been implemented.

Mr. Freeson

If the variable domestic relief scheme proposed by the previous Administration had been introduced in 1974–75 the following domestic rate relief provisions would have been made:

  • 14.5p in Alnwich.
  • 18p in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
  • 14.5p in Blyth Valley.
  • 15p in Castle Morpeth.
  • 19p in Tymeddale.
  • 12p in Wansbeck.

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