HC Deb 15 March 1978 vol 946 cc265-6W
Mr. Michael McGuire

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report all those local authorities which are known to have had to increase their rates by 10 per cent, or more.

Mr. Guy Barnett

On the basis of the 311 returns so far received, some of which are provisional, the following 96 local authorities are expected to levy general rates for the year 1978–79 which are 10 per cent, or more higher than the rates which they levied in 1977–78:

Metropolitan Districts

  • Trafford.
  • Wigan.
  • Rotherham.
  • Gateshead.
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
  • South Tyneside.
  • Wolverhampton.
  • Calderdale.
  • Leeds.

London Boroughs

  • Hammersmith.

District Councils

  • Newbury.
  • Huntingdon.
  • Chester.
  • Ellesmere Port.
  • Macclesfield.
  • Caradon.
  • Carlisle
  • Torridge.
  • Darlington.
  • Colchester.
  • Cheltenham.
  • Medina.
  • Ashford.
  • Dartford.
  • Gillingham.
  • Maidstone.
  • Swale.
  • Tunbridge and Malling.
  • Bridgnorth.
  • Mendip.
  • Taunton Deane.
  • Yeovil.
  • East Staffordshire.
  • Stafford.
  • Newcastle-under-Lyme.
  • Ipswich.
  • North Warwickshire.
  • Rugby.
  • Wokingham.
  • South Cambridgeshire.
  • Crewe and Nantwich.
  • Halton.
  • Vale Royal.
  • Penwith.
  • Teignbridge.
  • West Devon.
  • Easington.
  • Southend on Sea.
  • 266
  • Redditch.
  • South Wight
  • Canterbury.
  • Dover.
  • Gravesham.
  • Sevenoaks.
  • Thanet.
  • Lancaster.
  • South Shropshire.
  • Sedgemoor.
  • West Somerset.
  • Cannock Castle.
  • Lichfield.
  • South Staffordshire.
  • Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Epsom and Ewell.
  • Nuneaton.
  • Warwick.
  • Adur.
  • Horsham.
  • Worthing.
  • Colwyn.
  • Dinefwr.
  • Charnwood.
  • Leicester.
  • North West Leicestershire.
  • Kettering.
  • Alnwick.
  • Blyth Valley.
  • Craven.
  • Harrogate.
  • Ryedale.
  • Selby.
  • Crawley.
  • Mid Sussex.
  • Alyn and Deeside.
  • Rhuddlan.
  • Torfaen.
  • Harborough.
  • Melton.
  • Oadby and Wigston.
  • South Northamptonshire.
  • Berwick-upon-Tweed.
  • Tynedale.
  • Hambleton.
  • Richmondshire.
  • Scarborough.
  • York.