Rate Bills (Hansard, 6 July 1990)

§ Mr. Richard Shepherd
To ask the Secretary of State For the Environment, pursuant to his reply of 19 June,Official Report, columns 477–80, if he will publish the overall estimated increase in rate bills in 1990–91 as against 1989–90 of (a) shops (b) factories, (c) hotels and boarding houses, (d) officies and (e) mines, in total and by economic regions (i) including the effects of transitional relief and (ii) excluding the effects of transitional relief.

§ Mr. Chope
Aggregate changes in rate bills between 1989–90 and 1990–91 for the types of property about which my hon. Friend asks, with and without the transitional arrangements, are given in the table. The figures have been calculated at 1990–91 prices and are based on the rateable values shown in the lists deposited with local authorities on 20 December 1989. The figures take no account of empty property or other reliefs.

§ Mr. Trippier
I assume that the hon. Member is referring to special protection areas under the EC birds directive rather than areas of special protection under section 3 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Details of those sites which have been designated as special protection areas and as wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar convention are set out in the table. Those sites with dual designation have been marked with an asterisk. Responsibility for the designation of sites in Scotland rests with the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Sites designated as wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar convention
Name and county/region

Bridgwater Bay—Somerset

Bure Marshes—Norfolk

Cors Fochno and Dyfi—Dyfed, Gwynedd and Powys

Hickling Broad and Horsey Mere—Norfolk

Lindisfarne—Northumberland

Minsmere—Walberswick—Suffolk

North Norfolk Coast—Norfolk

Ouse Washes—Cambridgeshire and Norfolk

Abberton Reservoir—Essex
717
Rostherne Mere—Cheshire

^*Chesil Beach and the Fleet—Dorset

^*The Dee Estuary—Merseyside, Cheshire and Clwyd

^*Derwent Ings—North Yorkshire and Humberside

^*Holburn Moss—Northumberland

Irthinghead Mires—Cumbria and Northumberland

^*The Swale—Kent

^*Alt Estuary—Merseyside

^*Leighton Moss—Lancashire

^*Martin Mere—Lancashire

^*Rockliffe Marshes (Part of Upper Solway Flats and Marshes)—Cumbria

^*Chichester and Langstone Harbours—Hampshire/West Sussex

^*Upper Severn Estuary—Gloucestershire

^*The Wash—Lincolnshire/Norfolk

^*Pagham Harbour—West Sussex

Moor House—Cumbria

Orfordness-Havergate—Suffolk

Ribble Estuary—Lancashire

Skomer—Dyfed

^*The Swale—Kent

^*Chesil Beach and The Fleet—Dorset

Chew Valley Lake—Avon

Coquet Island—Northumberland

^*The Dee Estuary—Merseyside, Cheshire and Clwyd

^*Derwent Ings—North Yorkshire

Farne Islands—Northumberland

^*Holborn Moss—Northumberland

^*Alt Estuary—Merseyside

^*Leighton Moss—Lancashire

^*Martin Mere—Lancashire

Grassholm—Dyfed

^*Rockliffe Marshes (Part Upper Solway Flats and Marshes)—Cumbria

Chichester and Langstone Harbours—Hampshire/West Sussex

^*Upper Severn Estuary—Gloucestershire

^*The Wash—Lincolnshire/Norfolk

^*Pagham Harbour—West Sussex

^*North Norfolk Coast—Norfolk