To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the average council tax payment due in each district council area in Scotland in the current financial year; and if he will make a statement.
[holding answer 7 June 1993]: The table gives, for each district and islands council area in Scotland, estimates of the average amount of council tax billed per inhabitable dwelling in 1993–94. The amount billed includes district and region council taxes and excludes council water charges. In calculating the average, no allowance has been made for the effects of council tax transitional relief and council tax benefit in reducing the amounts that have to be paid.
| Council tax, amount billed per dwelling, Scotland: 1993–94 | |
| Authority | Amount billed £ |
| Borders | |
| Berwickshire | 361 |
| Ettrick and Lauderdale | 385 |
| Roxburgh | 362 |
| Tweeddale | 433 |
| Central | |
| Clackmannan | 457 |
| Falkirk | 378 |
| Stirling | 556 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | |
| Annandale and Eskdale | 422 |
| Nithsdale | 423 |
| Stewartry | 394 |
| Wigtown | 400 |
| Fife | |
| Dunfermline | 448 |
| Kirkcaldy | 443 |
| North East Fife | 542 |
| Grampian | |
| Aberdeen City | 456 |
| Banff and Buchan | 370 |
| Gordon | 459 |
| Kincardine and Deeside | 451 |
| Moray | 361 |
| Highland | |
| Badenoch and Strathspey | 407 |
| Caithness | 346 |
| Inverness | 422 |
| Lochaber | 445 |
| Nairn | 458 |
| Ross and Cromarty | 440 |
| Skye and Lochalsh | 415 |
| Sutherland | 366 |
| Lothian | |
| East Lothian | 529 |
| Edinburgh City | 583 |
| Midlothian | 485 |
| West Lothian | 409 |
| Strathclyde | |
| Argyll and Bute | 440 |
| Bearsden and Milngavie | 590 |
| Clydebank | 424 |
| Clydesdale | 445 |
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | 396 |
| Cumnock and Doon Valley | 370 |
| Cunninghame | 393 |
| Dumbarton | 493 |
| East Kilbride | 463 |
| Eastwood | 515 |
| Glasgow City | 458 |
| Hamilton | 440 |
| Inverclyde | 396 |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 393 |
| Kyle and Carrick | 533 |
| Monklands | 415 |
| Motherwell | 380 |
| Renfrew | 456 |
| Strathkelvin | 531 |
| Tayside | |
| Angus | 403 |
| Dundee City | 459 |
| Perth and Kinross | 473 |
| Orkney | 301 |
| Authority | Amount billed £ |
| Shetland | 298 |
| Western Isles | 319 |
| Scotland | 454 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what information he has concerning council tax appeals being made in each local authority area for the latest date for which information is available;(2) how many proposals for changes in council tax banding have so far been made to valuation offices in each local authority; and what proportion of households this represents.
[holding answer 8 June 1993]: This information is not yet available centrally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his Department's forecast of the number of people in Scotland who were previously exempted from paying the community charge on the grounds of severe mental impairment and who (a) are liable for the water charge element of the council tax, (b) are liable for all or part of the property element of the council tax or (c) will be in receipt of 100 per cent. council tax benefit for the property element.
[holding answer 25 May 1993]: Such estimates are not available. My Department does not make estimates concerning the personal circumstances of persons who may be liable to pay the council tax.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his Department's assessment of the number of people in Scotland who (a) will be in receipt of 100 per cent. council tax benefit for the property element of the tax and (b) will be exempt from payment of the personal element of the council tax on the grounds of severe mental impairment.
[holding answer 25 May 1993]: My Department does not make any assessment of the circumstances of people entitled to council tax benefit.