Community Charge (Hansard, 3 May 1989)

§ Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment in which month he expects his consideration of collective local community charge registration and payment statistics to be completed and to be publicly announced.

§ Mr. Gummer
I shall announce my conclusions as soon as possible.

§ Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what indicative figures for the likely level of community charge in the city of Nottingham have been given by his Department over the last two years giving the date and criteria used in each case.

§ Mr. Gummer
The Department has not published any forecasts of the likely level of community charge in Nottingham. We have published illustrative figures based on reported expenditure levels for 1987–88 and 1988–89 and on local authority responsibilities in those years.
These were placed in the Library on 29 June 1987 and 24 June 1988, respectively. Both were accompanied by a full explanation of the assumptions used to produce the figures.

§ Mr. Nellist
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the orders and regulations concerning the implementation of the community charge(a) laid before and agreed to by the House. (b) laid before, but not yet agreed to by the House and (c) yet to be laid before the House giving in each case an outline of the area of implementation affected.

§ Mr. Gummer
[holding answer 2 May 1989]: The following negative resolution instruments concerning the community charge were laid on 17 March 1989: 1989 No. 438—The Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989. These regulations (apart from regulations 4 and 5) came into force on 7 April 1989. Regulations 4 and 5 come into force on 22 May 1989. 1989 No. 439—The Valuation and Community Charge Tribunals Regulations 1989. These regulations (apart for the purposes of regulations 4 to 8 and 11) came into force on 7 April 1989. Regulations 4 to 8 came into force on 1 May 1989. 1989 No. 440—The Valuation and Community Charge Tribunals (Transfer of Jurisdiction) Regulations 1989. These regulations came into force on 1 May 1989. 1989 No. 442—The Personal Community Charge (Exemptions) Order 1989. This order came into force on 7 April 1989. 1989 No. 443—The Personal Community Charge (Students) Regulations 1989. These regulations are coming into force on 1 October 1989.
A debate on these regulations is being arranged through the usual channels.
We intend to lay further regulations on the community charge covering cross border information, the form of the community charge demand note, and the information to accompany it, discounts, co-owners and other miscellaneous provisions.