§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if, further to his answer of I I May, Official Report, column 484, he will publish in the Official Report the percentage increase in rates for 1986–87 over that for 1985–86 for each shire county.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe information is as follows:
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Counties ranked by percentage increase in precept from 1985–86 to 1986–87—Percentage change in shire county preceptsfrom 1985–86 to 1986–87 Rank Per cent. Cumbria 1 36.4 Cambridgeshire 2 32.9 Buckinghamshire 3 30.0 Leicestershire 4 27.0 Somerset 5 26.5 Derbyshire 6 25.9 Wiltshire 6 25.9 Oxfordshire 8 24.8 Lincolnshire 9 22.0 Hertfordshire 10 21.9 Northumberland 11 21.7 Isle of Wight 12 20.0 East Sussex 13 19.9 Warwickshire 13 19.9 Devon 15 19.8 Shropshire 16 19.6 West Sussex 17 19.1 Norfolk 18 19.0 Bedfordshire 19 18.8 Essex 19 18.8 Cornwall 21 18.3 Gloucestershire 22 18.1 Avon 23 17.9 Nottinghamshire 24 17.7 Suffolk 24 17.7 Durham 26 17.3 Lancashire 27 16.1 North Yorkshire 28 15.9 Dorset 29 15.4 Hampshire 30 14.6 Humberside 30 14.6
Rank Per cent. Berkshire 32 12.9 Kent 33 12.7 Northamptonshire 34 12.5 Surrey 35 12.0 Cleveland 36 11.9 Hereford and Worcester 37 10.9 Staffordshire 38 9.8 Cheshire 39 8.7