To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list those authorities where the business rate base represents more than 60 per cent. of the combined total of their business and council tax bases. [38573]
The information requested is in the table.Authorities where the business rate represents more than 60 per cent. of the combined total of their business and council tax bases in 1998–99.Based on estimated yield from the uniform business rate and assumed income from the council tax for standard spending.
| Authority | Percentage |
| City of London | 99.4 |
| Westminster | 88.7 |
| Hillingdon | 76.2 |
| Crawley | 75.0 |
| Camden | 74.0 |
| Tower Hamlets | 72.4 |
| Copeland | 71.8 |
| Corby | 70.3 |
| Slough | 69.9 |
| Watford | 67.6 |
| Norwich | 66.4 |
| Manchester | 65.4 |
| Islington | 65.3 |
| Reading | 64.8 |
| Cambridge | 64.6 |
| Thurrock | 64.4 |
| Swindon | 63.5 |
| North Lincolnshire | 62.7 |
| Bassetlaw | 62.5 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 62.2 |
| Peterborough | 61.9 |
| Northampton | 61.7 |
| Hounslow | 61.7 |
| London Fire | 61.5 |
| Nottingham | 61.5 |
| Stevenage | 61.3 |
Authority
| Percentage
|
| Harlow | 61.0 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 60.6 |
| Milton Keynes | 60.3 |
| Oxford | 60.2 |
| Exeter | 60.1 |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) if he will list for each local authority in England, what the additional business rate would have been if a local business rate had varied by the same percentage in relation to the national business rate as the authority had budgeted for the council tax to vary in relation to CTSS; [38572](2) if he will list for each local authority in England which spends above SSA, what the additional business rate poundage would have been
(a) if the cost of the additional spending above SSA had been borne entirely by local businesses and (b) if the cost of additional spending above SSA had been shared equally by local businesses and council tax payers, assuming in each case no change in the local business base. [38576]
I have today placed in the Library of the House a table showing the information requested.