§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what sources, other than the electoral register, will be available to those responsible for compiling the register of those liable to pay the community charge.
§ Mr. HowardEach community charge registration officer will be able to require other registration officers, his own and other local authorities, and electoral registration officers to supply information from their records. In addition, CCROs will be able to obtain information from a responsible person at each address and from persons subject to the community charge.
§ Mr. SpellerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if(a) service personnel or (b) students who use a parental address as a home base and electoral address are to be liable for the community charge.
§ Mr. Howard[holding answer 18 January 1988]: United Kingdom service personnel will generally be liable to pay the personal community charge at their sole or main residence. A minority of service men—those who reside in properties designated in the interests of national security or because the turnover is too rapid to make registration for the personal charge practical — will pay a contribution, similar to that paid by residents of properties designated for the collective community charge, which will be passed on by the Government to the relevant local authority.
Full-time students will be liable to pay 20 per cent. of the personal community charge at their term-time address.