HC Deb 21 July 1994 vol 247 cc462-3W
Mr. Pike

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many appeals have been received regarding council tax bands; how many succeeded; how many have failed; and how many were outstanding at the latest date for which he has information;

(2) what information he has on the success or failure rate of appeals against council tax banding to the latest date for which figures are available, both in number and percentage terms.

Mr. Curry

The latest available figures are for the end of June. Some 919,025 proposals had been made in respect of dwellings in England. 412,185 had been settled, of which some 330,000—36 per cent.—resulted in a change of handing, leaving 506,840 outstanding.