To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the (a) expected and (b) actual receipts from council tax for each year since the council tax was introduced. [80789]
The information requested is in the table.Expected receipts are the total amount that councils billed for, net of reliefs and council tax benefits, in respect of each financial year and do not, therefore, make an allowance for non-collection.The actual receipts are the amounts received in each financial year against that year's council tax bills. Five authorities in 1994–95 were unable to provide this figure, so a figure of their total council tax receipts minus receipts for arrears has been used. The same applies to one authority in 1995–96.
| £ million | ||
| Expected receipts | Actual receipts | |
| 1993–94 | 7,349 | 6,807 |
| 1994–95 | 7,721 | 7,220 |
| 1995–96 | 8,220 | 7,770 |
| 1996–97 | 8,830 | 8,404 |
| 1997–98 | 9,562 | 9,134 |