To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many people have been exempted from paying the community charge in each category of exemption in the Doncaster local authority area.

The information returned by the local authority is as follows:

Numbers of persons exempt from community charge, 1 June 1990
	Number
Severely mentally impaired	418
Patients whose main residence is a National Health Service hospital	545
People whose sole or main residence is in a residential care home, a nursing home, a private hospital or a hostel providing care, who are receiving care	1,676
Aged 18 and in receipt of child benefit, or aged 18 or 19 and on full-time courses of further education	542
Members of religious communities	34
Others1	24

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table of expenditure on city grant in 1989–90, showing final expenditure for the year broken down by standard region, with Greater London shown as a separate region.

The information requested is as follows:

	£
East Midlands	3,368,489
London	695,633
Merseyside	279,238
Northern	1,762,354
North West	1,653,486
South West	16,387
West Midlands	2,957,808
Yorkshire and Humberside	760,632
Total	11,494,027

This excludes city grant in urban development corporations.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table showing the expected income from the uniform business rate in 1990–91, broken down by standard regions with Greater London shown as a separate region and a similar table showing the level of income had no transitional arrangement been in place.

The information is not available in exactly the form requested. The following table shows the estimated gross income from non-domestic rates for each region before and after the transitional arrangements are applied. The figures do not include the effects of reliefs for empty or charitable property or other reliefs nor any allowance for losses in collection.

	Gross yield (£m)
	Without transitional arrangements	With transitional arrangements
Northern	386	483
Yorks and Humberside	682	800
North West	858	1,100
East Midlands	559	620
West Midlands	713	888
East Anglia	341	316
London	3,462	2,882
South East	2,214	1,985
South West	719	666
England	9,915	9,741

Gross yield without transition is equal to the gross rateable value on proposed local rating lists at 20 December 1989 multiplied by the 1990–91 non-domestic multiplier. Properties on the central rating list and Crown property are excluded.