HC Deb 18 January 2001 vol 361 c307W
Mr. Grieve

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the(a) number and (b) percentage of higher rate taxpayers in each local authority area in Scotland. [145672]

Dawn Primarolo

Inland Revenue statistics (IRS) tables 3.14 provides information on the numbers of taxpayers, median income and median income by local authority. This is just a subset of those figures. Estimates for the number and percentage of higher rate taxpayers in each local authority in Scotland for 1996–97 (the latest year for which reliable figures are available) are provided in the table.

Number of higher rate taxpayers:
1996–97 In each unitary authority As a percentage of all taxpayers
Aberdeen City UA 12,000 10.1
Aberdeenshire UA 14,600 12.8
Angus UA 4,900 10.0
Argyll and Bute UA 3,300 10.3
Clackmannanshire UA 1 1
Dumfries and Galloway UA 2,100 3.4
Dundee City UA 3,900 6.5
East Ayrshire UA 1 1
East Dumbartonshire UA 5,300 7.2
East Lothian UA 3,300 7.2
East Renfrewshire UA 6,900 15.0
Edinburgh, City of UA 24,900 11.3
Eilean Siar UA 1 1
Falkirk UA 4,000 4.6
Fife UA 12,400 6.6
Glasgow City UA 8,000 3.4
Highland UA 6,300 6.2
Inverclyde UA 1 1
Midlothian UA 1 1
Moray UA 2,700 6.4
North Ayrshire UA 4,500 6.6
North Lanarkshire UA 7,200 4.7
Orkney Islands UA 1 1
Perthshire and Kinross UA 5,600 8.2
Renfrewshire UA 4,500 6.1
Scottish Borders UA 4,200 7.8
Shetland Islands US 1 1
South Ayrshire UA 4,800 8.7
South Lanarkshire UA 9,800 6.9
Stirling UA 5,400 12.6
West Dumbartonshire UA 1 1
West Lothian UA 2,900 3.8
1 Sample size is not sufficient for a reliable estimate to be made

This information is based on the survey of personal incomes.