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Mr. Bercow
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the 30 district councils in England with the largest rise in council tax for 2003–04.[110315]
Mr. Leslie
The 30 English non-metropolitan district councils with the largest percentage increase in their own Band D council tax (excluding local precepts) between 2002–03 and 2003–04 are, in descending order:
- Stratford-on-Avon,
- Weymouth and Portland,
- West Oxfordshire,
- Eastbourne,
- Fenland,
- Cherwell,
- Runnymede,
- Purbeck,
- Daventry,
- South Staffordshire,
- Elmbridge,
- Derbyshire Dales,
- Hertsmere,
- South Ribble,
- Rossendale,
- South Kesteven,
- North Dorset,
- Welwyn Hatfield,
- West Dorset,
- Three Rivers,
- Bassetlaw,
- Waveney,
- Chorley,
- Surrey Heath,
- Hastings,
- West Lindsey,
- Rushmoor,
- Mole Valley,
- Kennet,
- Cheltenham.