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Dr. Godman
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people have been exempted from paying the poll tax by way of each category of exemption in (a) Greenock and Port Glasgow, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole.
Mr. Lang
Information held by community charge registration officers on people who are exempt from the
| Known Exemptions from Community Charge | |||
| Inverclyde | Strathclyde | Scotland | |
| Persons aged 18 or over in receipt of Child Benefit | 248 | 4,750 | 7,776 |
| Prisoners | 276 | 5,306 | 6,425 |
| Foreign armed forces | 39 | 1,737 | 3,138 |
| Dependants of foreign armed forces | 5 | 247 | 247 |
| Persons aged 18 or over who are severely mentally handicapped | 330 | 7,609 | 14,794 |
| Other | 898 | 15,458 | 21,139 |
| Total | 1,796 | 35,107 | 53,519 |
Note: "Other' includes patients in residential homes, nursing homes or hospitals, members of religious communities, residents in Crown property, persons of no fixed abode etc.