§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people in(a) Greenock and Port Glasgow, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole are entitled to poll tax rebate based on claims for refund of rebate received from Strathclyde regional council and other regional and island councils; and what percentage of poll tax payers this represents in (a), (b) and (c) above.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThe caseload returns made by regional councils do not provide information separately for parliamentary constituencies and district councils. The latest available caseload information for Strathclyde regional council shows that at the end of February 1990 about 490,000 community charge rebate cases were in payment—(counting rebates to couples as one case). The latest 1989–90 caseload estimate for Scotland is 930,000. The total number of individual charge payers receiving help with the community charge is not collected. It is not, therefore, possible to show the proportion of individual charge payers helped by benefit.