To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many buildings the Property Services Agency rents for Government Departments in the Doncaster metropolitan borough council area; and what is the annual cost and the rent per square metre.
Tax units1 receiving mortgage interest relief by range of total income for 1988–89
| |||
Range of total income
| Number receiving mortgage interest relief
| Average value of relief per mortgagor
| Total cost of relief
|
(£'000)
| (thousands)
| (£)
| (£ million)
|
| Under 4 | 550 | 320 | 180 |
| 4 to 5 | 140 | 340 | 50 |
| 5 to 6 | 130 | 370 | 50 |
| 6 to 7 | 210 | 380 | 80 |
| 7 to 8 | 280 | 390 | 110 |
| 8 to 9 | 330 | 420 | 140 |
| 9 to 10 | 350 | 440 | 150 |
| 10 to 12 | 1,000 | 480 | 480 |
| 12 to 15 | 1,440 | 510 | 730 |
| 15 to 20 | 1,880 | 520 | 980 |
| 20 to 25 | 1,120 | 530 | 590 |
| 25 to 30 | 470 | 680 | 320 |
| Over 30 | 700 | 910 | 640 |
| Total | 8,600 | 520 | 4,500 |
1 Single persons and married couples. | |||
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing (a) the tax threshold, (b) tax free income, and (c) break-even points at current prices, at 1949–50 prices, and as a percentage of average manual earnings for a single person, married man without children, married man with two children and married man with four children in 1978–79 and 1988–89.
[holding answer 30 March 1988]: The information is in the table.
The Property Services Agency rents 21 buildings in the Doncaster metropolitan borough council area. The average rent is £27·82 per sq m and the annual costs are as follows:
| £ | |
| Rents | 394,825 |
| Rates | 314,441 |
| £ | |
| Landlords service charges | 33,961 |
| Insurance | 3,657 |
| Maintenance | 132,502 |
| Utilities | 87,442 |
| 966,828 |