§ 57. Mr. HarrisTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what percentage of sewage treatment works failed their discharge consents(a) in May 1979 and (b) at the most recent date for which figures are available.
§ Mr. HowardInformation on sewage treatment works failing their consents was not collected by the Government in May 1979. Numbers of sewage treatment works in each water authority area in England and Wales that have numerical discharge consent conditions, numbers tested and non-compliance in 1986 and 1987, together with the figures returned by authorities for 1988 are as follows.
§ 78. Mr. RiddickTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has had any representations to introduce a local income tax instead of the rating system and the community charge; and what would be the amount payable in local income tax by a man on average earnings.
§ Mr. GummerNot surprisingly I have received hardly any representations in favour of a local income tax. Based on 1988–89 figures for local authority spending, the average local income tax rate needed in England would have been 6.4p in the pound. If the tax were at that level in a particular local authority area, the payment for a person on male average earnings, with only the single person's tax allowance, would have been about £650.