HC Deb 25 July 1991 vol 195 c744W
Ms. Gordon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list(a) the rate support grant, (b) the non-domestic rate income and (c) the domestic rate income together with the percentages and totals for Tower Hamlets council in each year since 1979.

Mr. Key

No figures are available centrally for rate income for Tower Hamlets council before 1983–84.

to the statement made by my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning on 21 February, Official Report, column 209. All the 15 authorities with the highest percentages of arrears outstanding at the end of 1989–90, the latest year for which figures are available, were Labour controlled at that time.