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Local Government Finance

Volume 195: debated on Tuesday 23 July 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the standard spending assessments for (a) education, (b) personal social services, (c) highway maintenance, (d) police, (e) fire and civil defence, (f) other services and (g) capital financing in each London borough for each year since 1979.

Standard spending assessments—SSAs— were first introduced for the settlement year 1990–91 as a replacement for grant-related expenditure assessments. The SSAs for each London borough, split according to the requested service heads, are shown in table 2 of the SSA handbooks for 1990–91 and 1991–92, both of which are in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the figure for the percentage of non-payers of (a) community charge bills in 1990–91 and (b) domestic rate bills in 1989–90 for each local authority in Essex.

Information reported to the Department on the number of people who have not made a payment by 31 March 1991 as a percentage of the people who are liable in respect of a personal community charge, for authorities in Essex, is as follows:

Percentage of personal community charge payers who had not made a payment by 31 March 1991
Per cent.
Basildon9·4
Braintree5·0
Brentwood2·2
Castle Point6·0
Chelmsford3·0
Colchestern/a
Epping Forest5·5
Harlow10·6
Maldon1·2
Rochford3·6
Southend-on-Sea11·7
Tendring8·3
Thurrock6·2
Uttlesford4·0
n/a = not available.
n/a =not available.No information is held centrally on the number of non-payers of domestic rate bills.