London Boroughs (Council Tax)

HC Deb 17 November 2003 vol 413 cc536-7W

Simon Hughes

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to his answer of 29 October 2003,Official Report, columns 302–04W, on London boroughs (council tax), how much and what proportion of council tax was collected in the London boroughs in each year from April 1993 to April 1996. [139216]

Mr. Raynsford

The following table shows the amount of council tax collected in each London borough and the City of London, irrespective of the financial year to which they relate, in each year from 1993–94 to 1996–97.

Amounts of council tax collected1
	1993–94	1994–94	1995–96	1996–97
Inner London
City of London	0.960	1.255	1.331	1.417
Camden	36.770	38.940	37.056	43.630
Greenwich	29.507	27.851	29.234	36.751
Hackney	18.279	18.444	20.781	23.071
Hammersmith and Fulham	24.866	26.463	30.740	35.882
Islington	23.214	24.288	26.040	31.335
Kensigton and Chelsea	27.995	33.732	34.281	37.334
Lambeth	26.532	34.831	31.512	31.924
Lewisham	26.490	30.637	30.418	32.537
Southwark	22.624	26.374	26.694	34.584
Tower Hamlets	13.870	15.588	15.380	18.419
Wandsworth	13.269	13.777	27.209	35.719
Westminster	16.255	19.703	22.708	25.260
Total Inner London	280.631	311.883	333.384	387.863
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham	15.750	18.044	17.906	19.475
Barnet	53.655	60.553	62.897	68.042
Bexley	34.491	36.091	38.328	40.037
Brent	34.785	30.199	27.083	27.051
Bromley	51.307	52.726	55.687	60.924
Croydon	47.509	52.063	56.216	57.745
Ealing	43.256	40.727	42.784	45.009
Enfield	42.630	46.643	44.005	46.958
Haringey	30.843	32.875	33.226	35.330
Harrow	35.137	37.151	2—	39.659
Havering	36.414	36.550	39.055	42.674
Hillingdon	37.479	41.379	41.846	43.968
Kingston upon Thames	24.433	27.118	28.585	30.454
Merton	26.018	28.624	34.447	37.134
Newham	20.025	21.304	19.112	20.040
Redbride	34.742	34.778	37.513	39.582
Richmond upon Thames	32.595	41.291	47.754	51.112
Sutton	29.333	31.906	33.569	35.534
Waltham Forest	27.583	29.897	32.313	36.215
Total Outer London	692.104	734.971	2—	816.105
1 Amount of council tax due received by the end of the financial year as a percentage of the net collectable debit for the year
2n/a

The following table shows the in-year council tax collection rates for each London borough and the City of London for each year from 1993–94 to 1996–97. The collection of council tax continues after the end of the financial year to which it relates. This means that the percentage of council tax ultimately collected for any financial year is greater than that shown in the table.

In-year council tax collection rates1
	1993–94	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97
Inner London
City of London	97.7	96.3	99.0	98.1
Camden	81.4	82.0	83.7	87.7
Greenwich	84.3	86.9	89.4	91.4
Hackney	67.5	75.5	78.8	79.4
Hammersmith and Fulham	86.1	85.7	87.4	87.6
Islington	69.3	81.2	80.8	83.0
Kensington and Chelsea	87.6	89.2	93.2	94.9
Lambeth	48.4	56.4	71.8	78.6
Lewisham	82.5	81.2	81.5	84.8
Southwark	73.1	79.9	83.7	84.7
Tower Hamlets	84.3	84.6	87.3	87.2
Wandsworth	88.0	89.3	88.6	87.9
Westminster	84.6	91.3	93.6	92.6
Average Inner London	75.6	80.0	84.4	86.7
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham	93.1	94.6	95.4	94.9
Barnet	92.7	93.5	94.4	94.7
Bexley	95.4	95.7	96.4	96.2
Brent		84.4	85.8	87.0	87.6
Bromley	97.0	96.9	97.4	97.2
Croydon	94.3	92.8	93.4	92.1
Ealing	86.9	90.4	92.9	94.3
Enfield	86.2	88.5	90.8	91.8
Haringey	74.0	81.9	81.4	84.7
Harrow	94.4	2—	2—	96.4
Havering	95.0	95.8	96.5	96.7
Hallingdon	92.9	93.8	93.9	94.3
Hounslow	91.1	90.1	88.8	92.7
Kingston upon Thames	97.5	98.2	97.3	97.1
Merton	91.6	92.9	96.9	94.4
Newham	73.4	72.8	76.9	81.0
Redbridge	94.1	94.6	94.7	95.6
Richmond upon Thames	95.2	95.4	96.4	97.0
Sutton	97.5	97.9	98.3	98.0
Waltham Forest	82.2	86.2	88.9	91.5
Average Outer London	90.4	91.8	92.9	93.8
Average Greater London	85.6	88.0	90.1	91.4
1 Amount of council tax due received by the end of the financial year as a percentage of the net collectable debit for the year
2 n/a