To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will update table 1(4) in annex A of the Hardman report, Cmnd. 5322, on Civil Service redeployment.
[holding answer 18 March 1988]: Information on the division between headquarters and non-headquarters staff is no longer held centrally. The latest available figures for population by region and for non-industrial Civil Servants are as follows:Canada,
(b) France, (c) Germany, (d) Italy, (e) Japan and (f) the United States of America, for a married couple with no children.
[pursuant to his reply, 16 March 1988, c. 566–68]: I regret that the figure for the level of gross income at which the top rate of tax becomes payable in the United Kingdom was wrongly given as £19,301. The figure is £23,396. The revised table is as follows:
Country
| Starting rate Per cent.
| Starting rate threshold (£)
| Top rate
| Top rate threshold (£)
|
| Canada | 25·5 | 5,003 | 43·5 | 25,000 |
| France | 12·8 | 6,698 | 56·8 | 53,463 |
| Germany | 22·0 | 3,439 | 56·0 | 65,670 |
| Italy | 22·0 | 3,358 | 62·0 | 253,924 |
| Japan | 17·5 | 4,286 | 78·0 | 152,607 |
| United States of America | 15·0 | 5,086 | 34·7 | 22,086 |
| United Kingdom | 25·0 | 4,096 | 40·0 | 23,396 |