HC Deb 12 February 1987 vol 110 c330W
Mr. Marlow

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the number of higher rate taxpayers as a proportion of the population for each county in England and Wales.

Mr. Norman Lamont

[pursuant to the reply, 9 February 1987, c. 137]: Estimates for individual counties are subject to considerable uncertainty. The latest available estimates for English regions and for Wales are as follows:

Taxpayers1 liable to tax at higher rates as a percentage of total taxpayers1
1984–85 per cent.
English regions
North 2.6
Yorkshire and Humberside 3.0
North West 3.3
East Midlands 3.2
West Midlands 3.0
East Anglia 3.9
South East 6.8
South West 3.3
Wales 3.0
1 Counting husband and wife as one.

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