§ Mr. George Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the average unrebated cash rates payable by domestic ratepayers in each rating authority in Great Britain in 1977–78.
Mr. Guy HarriettThe average domestic rate payments for 1977–78 in rating authorities in England and Wales are shown in the following table. These figures take no account of rate rebates.
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LOCAL AUTHORITY AND AVERAGE DOMESTIC RATE PAYMENT 1977–78 £ Isle of Scilly 75.31 Greater Manchester Bolton 77.31 Bury 116.71 Manchester 148.26 Oldham 93.36 Rochdale 88Y.44 Salford 101.42 Stockport 150.15 Tameside 90.42 Trafford 123.64 Wigan 94.68 Mersey side Knowsley 133.90 Liverpool 100.41 St. Helens 125.98 Sefton 118.01 Wirral 140.40 South Yorkshire Barnsley 78.27 Doncaster 102.29 Rotherham 91.88 Sheffield 92.70
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Tyne and Wear Gateshead 90.94 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 118.27 North Tyneside 108.70 South Tyneside 89.60 Sunderland 99.20 West Midlands Birmingham 116.33 Coventry 124.82 Dudley 119.10 Sandwell 111.74 Solihull 151.15 Walsall 120.58 Wolverhampton 114.53 West Yorkshire Bradford 78.90 Calderdale 61.33 Kirklees 56.94 Leeds 63.92 Wakefield 82.26 City of London 257.40 Camden 259.44 Greenwich 121.09 Hackney 114.39 Hammersmith 143.03 Islington 163.42 Royal Kensington and Chelsea 243.26 Lambeth 139.21 Lewisham 124.89 Southwark 130.40 Tower Hamlets 151.92 Wandsworth 137.75 Westminster 278.84 Barking 137.16 Barnet 193.05 Bexley 156.42 Brent 160.59 Bromley 168.99 Croydon 151.59 Ealing 162.17 Enfield 134.00 Haringey 177.16 Harrow 178.56 Havering 168.06 Hillingdon 155.18 Hounslow 151.55 Royal Kingston-on-Thames 166.97 Merton 162.44 Newham 133.98 Redbridge 150.97 Richmond-upon-Thames 166.46 Sutton 146.55 Waltham Forest 151.03 Avon Bath 110.41 Bristol 113.46 Kingswood 93.73 Northavon 95.82 Wansdyke 105.05 Woodspring 116.56 Bedfordshire North Bedfordshire 156.16 Luton 182.13 Mid Bedfordshire 149.55 South Bedfordshire 183.15 Berkshire Bracknell 146.79 Newbury 125.46
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Reading 136.10 Slough 147.91 Windsor and Maidenhead 153.84 Wokingham 145.68 Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Vale 128.79 Beaconsfield 197.58 Chiltern 190.98 Milton Keynes 122.41 Wycombe 164.89 Cambridgeshire Cambridge 145.20 East Cambridgeshire 90.83 Fenland 86.31 Huntingdon 107.49 Peterborough 117.04 South Cambridgeshire 129.60 Cheshire Chester 135.63 Congleton 124.83 Crewe and Nantwich 115.51 Ellesmere Port 134.59 Halton 112.99 Macclesfield 153.53 Vale Royal 121.95 Warrington 114.11 Cleveland Hartlepool 89.84 Langbaurgh 109.79 Middlesbrough 118.58 Stockton on Tees 110.45 Cornwall Caradon 74.64 Carrick 78.57 Kerrier 66.13 North Cornwall 73.11 Penwith 75.38 Restormel 76.49 Cumbria Allerdale 72.22 Barrow in Furness 70.31 Carlisle 73.87 Copeland 71.50 Eden 62.36 South Lakeland 86.17 Derbyshire Amber Valley 86.20 Bolsover 73.31 Chesterfield 95.94 Derby 101.04 Erewash 90.75 High Peak 84.32 North-East Derbyshire 97.01 South Derbyshire 90.68 West Derbyshire 95.27 Devon East Devon 97.25 Exeter 102.91 North Devon 78.49 Plymouth 100.36 South Hams 89.58 Teignbridge 94.84 Tiverton 73.18 Torbay 112.05 Torridge 62.36 West Devon 76.14
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Dorset Bournemouth 144.10 Christchurch 135.36 North Dorset 96.99 Poole 142.07 Purbeck 112.29 West Dorset 93.69 Weymouth and Portland 112.60 Wimborne 134.29 Durham Chester-le-Street 87.10 Darlington 86.62 Derwentside 70.06 Durham 87.26 Easington 61.72 Sedgefield 81.37 Teesdale 55.96 Wear Valley 69.39 East Sussex Brighton 153.34 Eastbourne 175.40 Hastings 117.11 Hove 147.14 Lewes 143.29 Rother 135.41 Wealden 116.56 Essex Basildon 155.67 Braintree 109.89 Brentwood 158.59 Castle Point 137.87 Chelmsford 133.55 Colchester 107.70 Epping Forest 165.81 Harlow 154.92 Maldon 116.28 Rochford 137.52 Southend-on-Sea 148.58 Tendring 101.40 Thurrock 130.10 Uttlesford 135.52 Gloucestershire Cheltenham 118.80 Cotswold 118.26 Forest of Dean 79.35 Gloucester 93.48 Stroud 100.72 Tewkesbury 117.38 Hampshire Basingstoke 139.31 East Hampshire 137.40 Eastleigh 128.36 Fareham 135.90 Gosport 115.82 Hart 144.38 Havant 127.87 New Forest 118.33 Portsmouth 130.50 Rushmoor 159.10 Southampton 127.63 Test Valley 131.76 Winchester 134.91 Hereford and Worcester Bromsgrove 151.19 Hereford 109.67 Leominster 88.77 Malvern Hills 131.06 Redditch 131.66
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South Herefordshire 100.99 Worcester 135.47 Wychavon 154.80 Wyre Forest 131.01 Hertfordshire Broxbourne 157.50 Dacorum 175.08 East Hertfordshire 148.98 Hertsmere 208.93 North Hertfordshire 160.71 St. Albans 177.44 Stevenage 184.73 Three Rivers 209.49 Watford 175.00 Welwyn Hatfield 179.21 Humberside Beverley 97.99 Boothferry 64.93 Cleethorpes 84.94 Glanford 83.34 Grimsby 83.66 Holderness 79.77 Kingston upon Hull 67.80 North Wolds 75.02 Scunthorpe 99.54 Isle of Wight Medina 96.26 South Wight 104.79 Kent Ashford 101.99 Canterbury 109.06 Dartford 112.53 Dover 97.20 Gillingham 91.54 Gravesham 111.24 Maidstone 108.63 Medway 104.36 Sevenoaks 124.58 Shepway 121.18 Swale 78.82 Thanet 115.99 Tonbridge and Mailing 106.43 Tunbridge Wells 108.9 Lancashire Blackburn 84.34 Blackpool 94.23 Burnley 59.42 Chorley 75.74 Fylde 105.26 Hyndburn 64.93 Lancaster 89.79 Pendle 57.50 Preston 92.74 Ribble Valley 81.51 Rossendale 70.04 South Ribble 85.45 West Lancashire 111.07 Wyre 89.74 Leicestershire Blaby 91.84 Charnwood 95.46 Harborough 93.58 Hinckley and Bosworth 88.13 Leicester 82.49 Melton 89.18 North West Leicestershire 79.98 Oadby and Wigston 99.36 Rutland 97.24
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Lincolnshire Boston 89.44 East Lindsey 74.14 Lincoln 93.52 North Kesteven 87.66 South Holland 86.37 South Kesteven 90.34 West Lindsey 79.84 Norfolk Breckland 89.29 Broadland 98.21 Great Yarmouth 95.24 North Norfolk 88.06 Norwich 110.68 South Norfolk 93.85 West Norfolk 81.39 Northamptonshire Corby 112.15 Daventry 111.73 East Northampton 86.75 Kettering 98.74 Northampton 18.57 South Northampton 105.71 Wellingborough 94.61 Northumberland Alnwick 77.98 Berwick-upon-Tweed 68.09 Blyth Valley 93.37 Castle Morpeth 107.19 Tynedale 84.95 Wansbeck 84.96 North Yorkshire Craven 70.33 Hambleton 89.96 Harrogate 93.84 Richmondshire 98.01 Ryedale 76.14 Scarborough 87.67 Selby 81.97 York 70.14 Nottinghamshire Ashfield 74.03 Bassetlaw 77.34 Broxtowe 91.87 Gedling 91.49 Mansfield 89.15 Newark 81.76 Nottingham 90.26 Rushcliffe 103.83 Oxfordshire Cherwell 127.02 Oxford 150.34 South Oxfordshire 144.50 Vale of White Horse 140.96 West Oxfordshire 119.20 Salop Bridgnorth 96.20 North Shropshire 87.84 Oswestry 78.13 Shrewsbury and Atcham 100.28 South Shropshire 72.11 The Wrekin 105.03 Somerset Mendip 92.00 Sedgemoor 100.89
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Taunton Deane 96.19 West Somerset 89.96 Yeovil 93.21 Staffordshire Cannock Chase 110.20 East Staffordshire 102.47 Lichfield 135.67 Newcastle under Lyme 106.95 South Staffordshire 131.51 Stafford 118.76 Staffordshire Moorlands 100.82 Stoke-on-Trent 97.15 Tamworth 134.61 Suffolk Babergh 102.97 Forest Heath 94.02 Ipswich 110.17 Mid Suffolk 98.13 St. Edmundsbury 101.49 Suffolk Coastal 110.67 Waveney 97.43 Surrey Elmbridge 223.04 Epsom and Ewell 209.12 Guildford 183.87 Mole Valley 172.03 Reigate and Banstead 189.30 Runnymede 154.98 Spelthorne 163.13 Surrey Heath 188.37 Tandridge 153.98 Waverley 187.16 Woking 190.99 Warwickshire North Warwickshire 106.30 Nuneaton 119.76 Rugby 126.06 Stratford-on-Avon 139.93 Warwick 141.49 West Sussex Adur 111.90 Arun 120.93 Chichester 115.15 Crawley 117.47 Horsham 113.08 Mid Sussex 126.76 Worthing 128.36 Wiltshire Kennet 102.97 North Wiltshire 86.80 Salisbury 112.14 Thamesdown 103.55 West Wiltshire 86.49 Clywd Alyn and Deeside 80.60 Colwyn 76.57 Delyn 83.31 Glyndwr 62.43 Rhuddlan 92.80 Wrexham Maelor 69.29 Dyfed Carmarthen 47.50 Ceredigion 48.49 Dinefwr 35.41 Llanelli 51.11 Preseli 44.29 South Pembrokeshire 53.46
Gwent Blaenau Gwent 62.19 Islwyn 63.40 Monmouth 80.52 Newport 91.58 Torfaen 76.24 Gwynedd Aberconwy 71.85 Arfon 47.11 Dwyfor 47.10 Meirionnydd 49.17 Ynys-Mon 55.72 South Glamorgan Cynon Valley 50.33 Merthyr Tydfil 57.29 Ogwr 64.34 Rhondda 39.06 Rhymney Valley 65.78 Taff-Ely 66.15 Powy's Brecknock 40.16 Montgomery 32.98 Radnor 37.51 outh Glamorgan Cardiff 90.15 Vale of Glamorgan 86.55 West Glamorgan Afan 79.59 Lliw Valley 57.81 Neath 61.85 Swansea 85.24