HC Deb 12 June 1990 vol 174 cc151-2W
Mr. Blunkett

To 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.

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