To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what estimate he has (a) for each local authority, (b) for each region and (c) for England for the amount and proportion of local authority income coming from (i) council tax, (ii) national non-domestic rate, (iii) transitional relief and (iv) council tax benefit; and if he will make a statement.
I have today placed in the Library figures for the amount of national non-domestic rate which authorities are entitled to receive from the non-domestic rate pool in 1993–94, the amounts in respect of council tax, including transitional relief and council tax benefit, which they have budgeted to receive, and the percentages of each authority's budget requirement which they represent. A summary for each region and England is given in the table.Transitional relief grant and council tax benefit grant are paid only to billing authorities and together with receipts of council taxes from council taxpayers constitute
| Budget requirement (including parish precepts) | Income from non-domestic rate | Council tax requirement | |||
| Region | £ million | £ million | Per cent. | £ million | Per cent. |
| The South-West | 3,180 | 1,140 | 36 | 900 | 28 |
| West Midlands | 4,020 | 1,260 | 31 | 910 | 23 |
| Yorkshire | 3,800 | 1,190 | 31 | 850 | 22 |
| North-west | 5,560 | 1,650 | 30 | 1,280 | 23 |
| The North | 2,090 | 620 | 30 | 470 | 23 |
| East Midlands | 2,850 | 970 | 34 | 680 | 24 |
| East Anglia | 1,370 | 500 | 37 | 340 | 25 |
| London | 7,270 | 1,670 | 23 | 1,460 | 20 |
| The South-East | 7,390 | 2,580 | 35 | 2,050 | 28 |
| England | 37,530 | 11,580 | 31 | 8,930 | 24 |
Notes:
The budget requirement is the amount authorities have budgeted to receive from revenue support grant, non-domestic rates and council taxes.
The income from non-domestic rates is the amount of redistributed non-domestic rates payable to an authority's general fund.
The council tax requirement either (a) includes income required to cover any estimated deficit on the collection fund brought forward from 1992–93 or (b) excludes income met from an estimated surplus on the collection fund brought forward from 1992–93.