To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish by valuation office and sub-office the comparable figures for objections to domestic rates and to community charge tribunals.
I have been asked to reply.In the table figures for objections to domestic rating proposals include those for both domestic and non-domestic properties. No separate figures are available for domestic properties alone.
| Valuation and Community Charge Tribunal Offices | Community charge appeals to 30 September 1990 | Objections to rating proposals from 1 January 1989 to 31 December 1989 |
| Avon and Gloucestershire | 94 | 4,853 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 166 | 6,647 |
| Berkshire | 43 | 1,779 |
| Birmingham | 4 | 5,532 |
| Buckinghamshire | 6 | 1,929 |
| Cambridgeshire | 27 | 1,457 |
| Cheshire | 107 | 3,997 |
| Cleveland and Durham | 300 | 4,187 |
| Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire | 29 | 3,379 |
| Cumbria | 73 | 1,249 |
| Derbyshire | 57 | 1,856 |
| Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 168 | 4,823 |
| Dorset and Somerset | 153 | 2,833 |
| Essex | 201 | 3,956 |
| Hampshire North and Wiltshire | 62 | 2,757 |
| Hampshire South and Isle of Wight | 71 | 2,367 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 36 | 1,956 |
| Humberside | 677 | 3,183 |
| Kent | 188 | 3,715 |
| Lancashire | 169 | 3,966 |
| Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire | 81 | 4,699 |
Valuation and Community Charge Tribunal Offices
| Community charge appeals to 30 September 1990
| Objections to rating proposals from I January 1989 to 31 December 1989
|
| Lincolnshire | 90 | 1,257 |
| Central London | 11 | 18,073 |
| London North East | 54 | 6,707 |
| London North West | 27 | 7,453 |
| London South East | 30 | 5,085 |
| London South West | 64 | 5,460 |
| Manchester North | 102 | 5,379 |
| Manchester South | 18 | 7,227 |
| Merseyside | 133 | 5,776 |
| Norfolk | 81 | 1,203 |
| Northumberland, Tyne and Wear | 248 | 8,802 |
| North Yorkshire | 195 | 2,185 |
| Oxfordshire | 60 | 3,971 |
| South Yorkshire | 57 | 4,041 |
| Staffordshire and Shropshire | 24 | 3,971 |
| Suffolk | 75 | 1,498 |
| Surrey | 48 | 3,711 |
| East Sussex | 56 | 3,312 |
| West Sussex | 21 | 2,096 |
| West Midlands | 26 | 5,318 |
| West Yorkshire | 98 | 4,433 |
| Total | 4,230 | 178,078 |