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Mr. Marlow
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the number of higher rate taxpayers as a proportion of the population for each county in England and Wales.
Mr. Norman Lamont
[pursuant to the reply, 9 February 1987, c. 137]: Estimates for individual counties are subject to considerable uncertainty. The latest available estimates for English regions and for Wales are as follows:
| Taxpayers1 liable to tax at higher rates as a percentage of total taxpayers1 | |
| 1984–85 per cent. | |
| English regions | |
| North | 2·6 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 3·0 |
| North West | 3·3 |
| East Midlands | 3·2 |
| West Midlands | 3·0 |
| East Anglia | 3·9 |
| South East | 6·8 |
| South West | 3·3 |
| Wales | 3·0 |
| 1 Counting husband and wife as one. | |