HC Deb 21 March 1988 vol 130 cc18-9W
Dr. Marek

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will update table 1(4) in annex A of the Hardman report, Cmnd. 5322, on Civil Service redeployment.

Mr. Brooke

[holding answer 18 March 1988]: Information on the division between headquarters and non-headquarters staff is no longer held centrally. The latest available figures for population by region and for non-industrial Civil Servants are as follows:

Canada, (b) France, (c) Germany, (d) Italy, (e) Japan and (f) the United States of America, for a married couple with no children.

Mr. Norman Lamont

[pursuant to his reply, 16 March 1988, c. 566–68]: I regret that the figure for the level of gross income at which the top rate of tax becomes payable in the United Kingdom was wrongly given as £19,301. The figure is £23,396. The revised table is as follows:

Country Starting rate Per cent. Starting rate threshold (£) Top rate Top rate threshold (£)
Canada 25.5 5,003 43.5 25,000
France 12.8 6,698 56.8 53,463
Germany 22.0 3,439 56.0 65,670
Italy 22.0 3,358 62.0 253,924
Japan 17.5 4,286 78.0 152,607
United States of America 15.0 5,086 34.7 22,086
United Kingdom 25.0 4,096 40.0 23,396