§ Mr. MansTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the projected rate increases for all counties, boroughs and districts in England for the financial year 1988–89.
§ Mr. Chope[holding answer 12 April 1988]: The following is the available information for county precept increases and local rate increases in boroughs and districts in 1988–89:
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Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Per cent. Avon 7.9 Bedfordshire 6.1 Berkshire 8.5 Buckinghamshire 9.2 Cambridgeshire 4.9 Cheshire 10.0 Cleveland 11.9 Cornwall 12.9
Per cent. Cumbria 5.5 Derbyshire 13.5 Devon 11.3 Dorset 7.4 Durham 15.0 East Sussex 14.1 Essex 17.8 Gloucestershire 11.9 Hampshire 8.8 Hereford and Worcester 9.8 Hertfordshire 16.9 Humberside 20.3 Isle of Wight 9.7 Kent 12.5 Lancashire 18.5 Leicestershire 11.0 Lincolnshire 14.0 Norfolk 10.0 Northamptonshire 15.1 Northumberland 114.6 North Yorkshire 11.9 Nottinghamshire 7.2 Oxfordshire 9.3 Shropshire 8.7 Somerset 11.7 Staffordshire 8.3 Suffolk 7.9 Surrey 10.5 Warwickshire 15.9 West Sussex 9.1 Wiltshire 7.8 1 Excluding Northumbria police precept. 129W
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Per cent. Isles of Stilly 3.1 Greater Manchester Bolton 6.3 Bury 7.4 Manchester -9.7 Oldham 10.1 Rochdale 7.4 Salford 8.6 Stockport 10.0 Tameside 7.9 Trafford 10.1 Wigan 9.5 Merseyside Knowsley 3.7 Liverpool 1.2 St. Helens 5.7 Sefton 7.4 Wirral 7.2 South Yorkshire Barnsley 8.9 Doncaster 8.3 Rotherham 7.6 Sheffield 12.1 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 10.0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne -7.2 North Tyneside 9.0 South Tyneside 8.5 Sunderland 3.8 West Midlands Birmingham 3.2 Coventry 8.0 Dudley 1.9 Sandwell 5.0 Solihull 0.4
Per cent. Walsall 4.7 Wolverhampton 3.5 West Yorkshire Bradford 11.0 Calderdale 18.1 Kirklees 12.8 Leeds 8.0 Wakefield 12.2
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Percentage City of London 4.1 Camden -2.6 Greenwich 12.5 Hackney 9.3 Hammersmith and Fulham 5.2 Islington 13.6 Kensington and Chelsea -26.4 Lambeth -17.9 Lewisham 3.7 Southwark -9.3 Tower Hamlets 11.6 Wandsworth 31.7 Westminster -0.4 Barking and Dagenham 6.2 Barnet 15.6 Bexley 13.4 Brent 10.7 Bromley 7.3 Croydon 8.0 Ealing -24.5 Enfield 20.5 Haringey -9.9 Harrow 8.5 Havering 8.0 Hillingdon 7.4 Hounslow 7.3 Kingston-upon-Thames 10.5 Merton 10.8 Newham 11.6 Redbridge 0.5 Richmond-upon-Thames 10.7 Sutton 9.6 Waltham Forest -31.3 130W
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Per cent. Avon Bath 0.0 Bristol 15.0 Kingswood 0.7 Northavon 9.5 Wansdyke 8.1 Woodspring 14.5 Bedfordshire North Bedfordshire 0.9 Luton -3.6 Mid Bedfordshire 5.4 South Bedfordshire 12.5 Berkshire Bracknell 3.0 Newbury 11.4 Reading 21.7 Slough 0.2 Windsor & Maidenhead 0.2 Wokingham 29.4 Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Vale 1.6 South Bucks 21.4
Per cent. Chiltern 7.3 Milton Keynes 3.9 Wycombe 3.0 Cambridgeshire Cambridge 27.0 East Cambridgeshire -0.9 Fenland 11.1 Huntingdonshire 4.6 Peterborough 8.8 South Cambridgeshire 1.7 Cheshire Chester 5.9 Congleton 5.2 Crewe and Nantwich 10.3 Ellesmere & Neston 5.0 Halton 5.0 Macclesfield 4.7 Vale Royal 9.8 Warrington 10.8 Cleveland Hartlepool 11.1 Langbaurgh-on-Tees 11.7 Middlesbrough -27.8 Stockton on Tees 23.2 131W
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 per cent. Cornwall Caradon 21.8 Carrick 14.1 Kerrier 17.1 North Cornwall 12.5 Penwith 12.9 Restormel 5.1 Cumbria Allerdale 0.0 Barrow in Furness 16.5 Carlisle 0.3 Copeland 0.6 Eden 6.0 South Lakeland 0.7 Derbyshire Amber Valley -8.6 Bolsover 9.7 Chesterfield 0.6 Derby -5.7 Erewash 16.4 High Peak 6.2 North East Derbyshire 17.8 South Derbyshire 8.0 Derbyshire Dales 13.9 Devon East Devon 1.5 Exeter 7.8 North Devon 11.2 Plymouth 16.2 South Hams 7.8 Teignbridge 13.7 Mid Devon 13.6 Torbay 6.8 Torridge 1.0 West Devon 22.7 Dorset Bournemouth 0.0 Christchurch 7.6 North Dorset 24.7 Poole 5.6 Purbeck 6.8
per cent. West Dorset 15.7 Weymouth and Portland 0.0 East Dorset 18.6 Durham Chester le Street 7.3 Darlington 9.7 Derwentside 20.6 Durham 10.1 Easington 53.8 Sedgefield 9.5 Teesdale 9.7 Wear Valley 11.8 132W
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Per cent. East Sussex Brighton 33.3 Eastbourne 0.0 Hastings 4.8 Hove from 0p to 4.9p Lewes 6.7 Rother 2.8 Wealden 6.3 Essex Basildon -6.0 Braintree 17.4 Brentwood -5.0 Castle Point 5.6 Chelmsford 36.1 Colchester 14.9 Epping Forest 5.0 Harlow 6.3 Maldon -6.0 Rochford 14.9 Southend on Sea 0.0 Tendring 0.5 Thurrock 17.5 Uttlesford 2.5 Gloucestershire Cheltenham 5.0 Cotswold 6.1 Forest of Dean 2.1 Gloucester 5.6 Stroud 20.7 Tewkesbury 1.7 Hampshire Basingstoke and Deane 18.8 East Hampshire 16.6 Eastleigh 5.8 Fareham 7.7 Gosport 9.3 Hart 12.2 Havant 21.7 New Forest 20.4 Portsmouth 3.4 Rushmoor -3.8 Southampton 4.0 Test Valley 9.7 Winchester 7.3 Hereford and Worcester Bromsgrove 15.1 Hereford -33.6 Leominster 9.4 Malvern Hills 5.3 Redditch 7.4 South Herefordshire 2.4 Worcester 4.1 Wychavon 6.6 Wyre Forest 13.6
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Per cent. Hertfordshire Broxbourne 0.0 Dacorum 5.1 East Hertfordshire 13.1 Hertsmere 0.6 North Hertfordshire 21.3 St. Albans 39.4 Stevenage 0.0 Three Rivers 0.8 Watford 0.0 Welwyn Hatfield 7.1 Humberside Beverley 11.2 Boothferry 13.9 Cleethorpes 9.0 Glanford 0.6 Great Grimsby 11.5 Holderness 25.0 Kingston-upon-Hull -17.0 East Yorkshire 24.4 Scunthorpe 5.9 Isle of Wight Medina 3.9 South Wight 4.3 Kent — Ashford 5.1 Canterbury 8.8 Dartford 1.1 Dover 26.0 Gillingham 42.3 Gravesham 5.8 Maidstone 1.4 Rochester on Medway 0.3 Sevenoaks 13.0 Shepway 33.0 Swale 5.2 Thanet 9.8 Tonbridge and Mailing 10.8 Tunbridge Wells 20.3 Lancashire Blackburn -4.1 Blackpool 6.9 Burnley 0.0 Chorley 5.0 Fylde 4.5 Hyndburn 1.7 Lancaster 8.0 Pendle 9.6 Preston 18.4 Ribble Valley 7.2 Rossendale 9.2 South Ribble 11.4 West Lancashire 0.2 Wyre 3.3 133W
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Per cent. Leicestershire Blaby -4.3 Charnwood -2.6 Harborough 5.5 Hinckley and Bosworth 15.7 Leicester 9.5 Melton 41.2 North West Leicester 6.3 Oadby and Wigston 4.9 Rutland 1.3
Per cent. Lincolnshire Boston 12.8 East Lindsey 18.3 Lincoln 14.8 North Kesteven 6.5 South Holland 6.7 South Kesteven 1.9 West Lindsey 7.1 Norfolk Breckland 16.5 Broadland 15.5 Great Yarmouth 3.9 North Norfolk 9.7 Norwich 4.1 South Norfolk 20.0 Kings Lynn/West Norfolk 9.0 Northamptonshire Corby 0.0 Daventry 0.0 East Northampton 24.1 Kettering 8.1 Northampton 15.8 South Northampton 16.4 Wellingborough 1.1 Northumberland Alnwick 22.3 Berwick.upon.Tweed 16.9 Blyth Valley 9.6 Castle Morpeth 15.0 Tynedale 8.0 Wansbeck 7.4 North Yorkshire Craven 10.5 Hambleton 20.7 Harrogate 6.8 Richmondshire 13.3 Ryedale 7.6 Scarborough 7.6 Selby 3.8 York 9.6 134W
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Per cent. Nottinghamshire Ashfield 8.8 Bassetlaw 8.9 Broxtowe 5.7 Gedling 13.0 Mansfield 16.1 Newark and Sherwood 23.5 Nottingham 0.0 Rushcliffe 1.3 Oxfordshire Cherwell 4.4 Oxford 88.2 South Oxfordshire 5.0 Vale of White Horse 2.4 West Oxfordshire 3.2 Shropshire Bridgnorth 5.6 North Shropshire 26.5 Oswestry 24.6 Shrewsbury and Atcham 9.3 South Shropshire 12.5 The Wrekin 15.2 Somerset Mendip 12.0
Per cent. Sedgemoor 0.2 Taunton Deane 4.2 West Somerset 19.4 South Somerset 31.0 Staffordshire Cannock Chase 2.4 East Staffordshire 3.0 Lichfield 7.6 Newcastle under Lyme 5.5 South Staffordshire 6.9 Stafford 21.7 Staffs, Moorlands 22.6 Stoke-on-Trent 3.6 Tamworth 0.0 Suffolk Babergh 5.8 Forest Heath 17.5 Ipswich 9.8 Mid Suffolk 11.4 St. Edmundsbury 16.0 Suffolk Coastal 39.1 Waveney 7.8
Increases in local rates and county precepts 1988–89 Percentage Surrey Elmbridge 2.5 Epsom and Ewell 10.8 Guildford 0.0 Mole Valley 6.2 Reigate and Banstead 7.4 Runnymede -14.6 Spelthorne -72.9 Surrey Heath 10.5 Tandridge 4.5 Waverley 9.4 Woking 11.5 Warwickshire North Warwickshire 4.6 Nuneaton and Bedworth 8.4 Rugby 1.5 Stratford-on-Avon -1.7 Warwick 7.4 West Sussex Adur 7.8 Arun 8.4 Chichester 7.0 Crawley 12.3 Horsham 9.0 Mid Sussex 17.6 Worthing 0.0 Wiltshire Kennet 7.4 North Wiltshire 25.9 Salisbury 13.9 Thamesdown -7.4 West Wiltshire 41.4