HC Deb 06 February 1992 vol 203 cc235-6W
Mr. Andrew Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which 20 local authorities have the most outstanding community charge payments; and what are the figures.

Mr. Portillo

[holding answer 4 February 1992]: Information is available about the arrears of community charge at 31 March 1991 for 358 out of 366 charging authorities. Of those authorities for which information is available the following have the highest arrears in terms of amounts outstanding.

£ million
Birmingham 60.4
Lambeth 50.1
Brent 32.4
Bristol 31.2
Leeds 31.2
Hackney 27.7
Sheffield 26.0
Haringey 23.7
Leicester 23.3
Ealing 22.1
Southwark 21.6
Newham 21.5
Islington 20.3
Nottingham 18.2
Waltham Forest 17.4
Camden 16.5
Sandwell 16.3
Wirral 15.5
Newcastle upon Tyne 14.4
Walsall 13.9

It should be noted that no information is available for Liverpool, Manchester, Coventry, Northampton, Oxford, Derwentside, Newbury and Oswestry.