HC Deb 27 November 1992 vol 214 cc890-1W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish and place in the Library in hard copy and in machine-readable form, as soon as possible after issuing his provisional capping criteria for 1993–94, a table showing for each authority its 1992–93 budget with and without adjustments for local authority functions the maximum possible 1993–94 budget permitted by his provisional capping criteria and the percentage changes between both versions of the 1992–93 budget and the maximum 1993–94 budget.

Mr. Howard

I shall shortly be placing in the Library in hard copy and machine-readable form a table showing each authority:

  1. (a) its 1992–93 budget on the basis of the latest information available to me;
  2. (b) the notional amount (ie the base from which to measure the budget increase for capping purposes) which I have proposed for it;
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  3. (c) an illustrative exemplification, on the basis of my proposals for notional amounts and the exemplifications of the proposed standard spending assessments (SSAs) which I have published in my consultation paper on the Settlement, showing the maximum 1993–94 budget which would not be excessive or represent an excessive increase under my provisional capping criteria; and
  4. (d) comparisons between this maximum and its 1992–93 budget and proposed notional amount respectively.

It is not possible to calculate the maximum possible 1993–94 budgets permitted by my provisional criteria until final notional amounts have been specified and final standard spending assessments have been calculated, which will necessarily be after the notional amounts and the local government finance reports have been made and approved by the House.

Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish and place in the Library in hard copy and in machine-readable form, as soon as possible after issuing his proposals for transitional relief for 1993–94 council tax payers, a table showing for each authority the transitional relief scheme council tax liability for a property in band D with no discounts to be used to calculate the entitlement to transitional relief.

Draft council tax valuation lists sent to billing authorities on 27 November
Band A Band B Band C Band D Band E Band F Band G Band H Total
North 749,060 188,646 181,822 90,794 47,485 23,517 14,238 1,528 1,297,090
North West 1,184,400 490,086 456,529 231,590 129,822 68,029 51,143 5,221 2,616,820
Yorkshire and Humberside 972,765 397,069 333,972 159,199 98,617 52,074 33,686 3,022 2,050,404
West Midlands 707,881 529,040 407,514 212,792 129,358 72,861 48,347 5,457 2,113,250
East Midlands 659,261 377,404 305,742 158,200 86,676 44,739 31,247 3,056 1,666,325
East Anglia 199,948 246,103 203,179 111,613 62,410 32,584 20,915 2,434 879,186
South West 330,495 491,891 476,080 309,839 205,519 112,592 75,118 7,778 2,009,312
South East 355,771 722,972 1,221,178 891,405 581,694 343,170 276,697 38,870 4,431,757
London 85,794 384,389 791,263 746,103 471,029 233,020 196,288 53,336 2,961,222
England 5,245,375 3,827,600 4,377,279 2,911,535 1,812,610 982,586 747,679 120,702 20,025,366

Source: Valuation Office agency.