§ Mr. Marlowasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many higher rate taxpayers there are in each of the counties in England north of the Bristol-Wash line.
§ Mr. Norman Lamont[pursuant to his reply, 14 January 1987, c. 231]: Estimates of the number of tax units (married couples counted as one unit) liable to tax at the higher rates in each of the counties in England north of the Bristol-Wash line are given in the table which follows. The estimates, which are for 1984–85 (the latest year for which county estimates are available) are made from small samples: where this means that the actual number of higher rate taxpayers may be more than a third higher or lower than shown in the table, the numbers are indicated by1.
Thousands Cleveland 4 Cumbria 5 Durham 14 Northumberland 3 Tyne and Wear 112 Humberside 17 North Yorkshire 9 South Yorkshire 110 West Yorkshire 24 Cheshire 23 Lancashire 24 Greater Manchester 13 Merseyside 13 Derbyshire 7 Leicestershire 10 Lincolnshire 19 Northamptonshire 17 Nottinghamshire 110 Hereford and Worcestershire 7 Shropshire 5 Staffordshire 8 Warwickshire 7 West Midlands 27