§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the average council tax payment due in each district council area in Scotland in the current financial year; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 7 June 1993]: The table gives, for each district and islands council area in Scotland, estimates of the average amount of council tax billed per inhabitable dwelling in 1993–94. The amount billed includes district and region council taxes and excludes council water charges. In calculating the average, no 281W allowance has been made for the effects of council tax transitional relief and council tax benefit in reducing the amounts that have to be paid.
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Council tax, amount billed per dwelling, Scotland: 1993–94 Authority Amount billed £ Borders Berwickshire 361 Ettrick and Lauderdale 385 Roxburgh 362 Tweeddale 433 Central Clackmannan 457 Falkirk 378 Stirling 556 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale 422 Nithsdale 423 Stewartry 394 Wigtown 400 Fife Dunfermline 448 Kirkcaldy 443 North East Fife 542 Grampian Aberdeen City 456 Banff and Buchan 370 Gordon 459 Kincardine and Deeside 451 Moray 361 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 407 Caithness 346 Inverness 422 Lochaber 445 Nairn 458 Ross and Cromarty 440 Skye and Lochalsh 415 Sutherland 366 Lothian East Lothian 529 Edinburgh City 583 Midlothian 485 West Lothian 409 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 440 Bearsden and Milngavie 590 Clydebank 424 Clydesdale 445 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 396 Cumnock and Doon Valley 370 Cunninghame 393 Dumbarton 493 East Kilbride 463 Eastwood 515 Glasgow City 458 Hamilton 440 Inverclyde 396 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 393 Kyle and Carrick 533 Monklands 415 Motherwell 380 Renfrew 456 Strathkelvin 531 Tayside Angus 403 Dundee City 459 Perth and Kinross 473 Orkney 301
Authority Amount billed £ Shetland 298 Western Isles 319 Scotland 454
§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what information he has concerning council tax appeals being made in each local authority area for the latest date for which information is available;
(2) how many proposals for changes in council tax banding have so far been made to valuation offices in each local authority; and what proportion of households this represents.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 8 June 1993]: This information is not yet available centrally.
§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his Department's forecast of the number of people in Scotland who were previously exempted from paying the community charge on the grounds of severe mental impairment and who(a) are liable for the water charge element of the council tax, (b) are liable for all or part of the property element of the council tax or (c) will be in receipt of 100 per cent. council tax benefit for the property element.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 25 May 1993]: Such estimates are not available. My Department does not make estimates concerning the personal circumstances of persons who may be liable to pay the council tax.
§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his Department's assessment of the number of people in Scotland who(a) will be in receipt of 100 per cent. council tax benefit for the property element of the tax and (b) will be exempt from payment of the personal element of the council tax on the grounds of severe mental impairment.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 25 May 1993]: My Department does not make any assessment of the circumstances of people entitled to council tax benefit.