§ Mr. DewarTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will deposit in the Library an analysis of the estimated distributional impact using the Treasury's interdepartmental group on tax-benefit modelling's tax-benefit model of the proposed council tax in(a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales using the illustrative bills published by the responsible Departments, which is, as far as possible, comparable with appendix 7 of HC 289 of Session 1990–91 and the answer of 22 May, Official Report, column 471;
(2) if he will publish a list of those parliamentary answers on the impact of (a) the council tax and (b) other local government tax options which have been based, in part or in whole, upon evidence derived from the Treasury's interdepartmental group on tax-benefit modelling's tax-benefit model.
§ Mr. PortilloI have been asked to reply.
Information to indicate the distribution of households with one, two and three or more adults by region has been provided. No answers have been given on the impact of the council tax using the interdepartmental group on tax-benefit modelling's tax-benefit model.
Since 1988 the Department of the Environment has made extensive use of the interdepartmental group on tax -benefit modelling's tax-benefit model to illustrate the distributional impact of the community charge, and the effect of the transitional relief and community charge reduction schemes. A large number of parliamentary answers have been provided which are reliant to some degree on information from the model. We do not, however, intend to publish any analysis of the impact of the council tax derived from the model.