§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list for each local authority the total amount of council tax benefit paid to residents and the figure in each case expressed as a percentage of the total council tax collected in each local authority. [24522]
§ Ms ArmstrongI have today placed in the Library of the House a table showing the amounts which each billing authority estimated as the amount of Council Tax benefit granted to Council Tax payers in respect of 1996–97 Council Taxes, and the figure in each case expressed as a percentage of the sum of the estimated 1996–97 Council Tax receipts in 1996–97 and the estimated amount of Council Tax benefit granted to Council Tax payers in 1996–97.