HC Deb 04 December 2003 vol 415 c141W
Sir Paul Beresford

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much additional revenue would be raised from the residents of each of the district councils in Surrey for every penny increase in the basic rate of income tax. [142034]

Dawn Primarolo

The requested information is given in the following table.

Additional full-year yield of increasing the basic rate of tax by 1p

in 2000–01

District councils in Surrey £ million
Elmbridge 8.7
Epsom and Ewell 6.1
Guildford 10.1
Mole Valley 5.0
Reigate and Banstead 9.1
Runnymede 5.0
Spelthorne 6.4
Surrey Heath 7.4
Tandridge 5.3
Waverley 8.6
Woking 6.2

Estimates are based upon the 2000–01 Survey of Personal Incomes. The effects of the illustrative changes can be scaled up or down over a reasonably wide range. The results exclude any behavioural response to the tax change.

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