asked the Secretary of State for the. Environment if he will publish in the Official Report the electorate in each council district in the West Midlands region on the current register; and if he will estimate the sum per elector which is to be raised in the current financial year in respect of (a) the county rate, (b) the district rate and (c) the total for the combined rates.
The information requested for 1982–83 is given in the following table:
Local Government Electors on 1982 electoral register
| County Precept† per elector
| District Rate† per elector
| Total Rate per elector
| |
£
| £
| £
| ||
| Wolverhampton | 190,309 | 90 | 282 | 372 |
| Hereford and Worcester | ||||
| Bromsgrove | 66,310 | 230 | 25 | 255 |
| Hereford | 36,649 | 241 | 43 | 284 |
| Leominster | 29,292 | 159 | 20 | 179 |
| Malvern Hills | 64,173 | 201 | 22 | 223 |
| Redditch | 48,423 | 281 | 45 | 326 |
| South Herefordshire | 36,101 | 177 | 14 | 191 |
| Worcester | 57,497 | 291 | 49 | 340 |
| Wychavon | 72,049 | 249 | 36 | 285 |
| Wyre Forest | 68,407 | 250 | 49 | 299 |
| Shropshire | ||||
| Bridgnorth | 36,350 | 199 | 23 | 222 |
| North Shropshire | 36,838 | 161 | 20 | 181 |
| Oswestry | 23,946 | 154 | 18 | 172 |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | 66,478 | 222 | 31 | 253 |
| South Shropshire | 27,181 | 148 | 19 | 167 |
| The Wrekin | 89,209 | 216 | 44 | 260 |
| Staffordshire | ||||
| Cannock Chase | 63,124 | 230 | 21 | 251 |
| East Staffordshire | 72,672 | 233 | 30 | 263 |
| Lichfield | 64,189 | 249 | 31 | 280 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 91,611 | 192 | 31 | 223 |
| South Staffordshire | 72,687 | 217 | 21 | 238 |
| Stafford | 87,372 | 245 | 27 | 272 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 72,808 | 175 | 18 | 193 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 197,089 | 217 | 28 | 245 |
| Tamworth | 46,192 | 221 | 27 | 248 |
| Warwickshire | ||||
| North Warwickshire | 44,669 | 243 | 38 | 281 |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | 84,549 | 205 | 42 | 247 |
| Rugby | 64,066 | 246 | 33 | 279 |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 76,623 | 261 | 36 | 297 |
| Warwick | 89,185 | 272 | 33 | 305 |
Source: OPCS Monitor "Electrical Statistics" (May 1982); DOE estimates.
* Inclusive of domestic rate relief grant.
† Derived from rateable value and general rate poundage.