HC Deb 12 July 1990 vol 176 c273W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the average rates bill as a proportion of earnings for a one-earner family with two children on 75 per cent. average earnings in 1989–90; and what he estimates the proportion of income going to the poll tax will be for the same family in 1990–91.

Mr. Chope

I have been asked to reply.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury gave to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) on 5 July, Official Report, column 699–708.