§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list those authorities where the business rate base represents more than 60 per cent. of the combined total of their business and council tax bases. [38573]
§ Mr. RaynsfordThe information requested is in the table.
Authorities where the business rate represents more than 60 per cent. of the combined total of their business and council tax bases in 1998–99.
Based on estimated yield from the uniform business rate and assumed income from the council tax for standard spending.
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Authority Percentage City of London 99.4 Westminster 88.7 Hillingdon 76.2 Crawley 75.0 Camden 74.0 Tower Hamlets 72.4 Copeland 71.8 Corby 70.3 Slough 69.9 Watford 67.6 Norwich 66.4 Manchester 65.4 Islington 65.3 Reading 64.8 Cambridge 64.6 Thurrock 64.4 Swindon 63.5 North Lincolnshire 62.7 Bassetlaw 62.5 Kensington and Chelsea 62.2 Peterborough 61.9 Northampton 61.7 Hounslow 61.7 London Fire 61.5 Nottingham 61.5 Stevenage 61.3
Authority Percentage Harlow 61.0 Redcar and Cleveland 60.6 Milton Keynes 60.3 Oxford 60.2 Exeter 60.1
§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) if he will list for each local authority in England, what the additional business rate would have been if a local business rate had varied by the same percentage in relation to the national business rate as the authority had budgeted for the council tax to vary in relation to CTSS; [38572]
(2) if he will list for each local authority in England which spends above SSA, what the additional business rate poundage would have been (a) if the cost of the additional spending above SSA had been borne entirely by local businesses and (b) if the cost of additional spending above SSA had been shared equally by local businesses and council tax payers, assuming in each case no change in the local business base. [38576]
§ Mr. RaynsfordI have today placed in the Library of the House a table showing the information requested.