§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish his latest estimates of the aggregate taxable income for each(a) county, (b) former metropolitan county, (c) the Greater London area, (d) metropolitan district and (e) London borough area.
§ Mr. Lilley[holding answer 5 June 1990]: I regret that estimates below regional level are not presently available. As explained in "Inland Revenue Statistics, 1989" estimates for counties have been discontinued owing to the emergence of problems in attributing addresses containing a shire county name which properly fall within a metropolitan county. Further investigation, which is continuing, has cast further doubt on the reliability of information at this level of detail. The problems also affect the reliability of the information given to the hon. Member on 4 April 1989, Official Report, columns 9–10. Regional estimates for 1987–88, the latest available year, are as follows.
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Region Taxable income £ million Northern 6,490 Yorkshire and Humberside 11,500 North West 15,000
Region Taxable income £ million East Midlands 8,880 West Midlands 12,600 East Anglia 5,460 South Eastern 60,000 South Western 11,900 Wales 5,350 Scotland 11,800 Northern Ireland 2,800