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Council Tax: Rates and Rating

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 8 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average Band D council tax was for each police authority in England and Wales in 2007-08. (176706)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Police precept (Band D) by police authority 2007-08

Police authority

£

Avon and Somerset

147.17

Bedfordshire

123.43

Cambridgeshire

149.40

Cheshire

116.03

Cleveland

158.10

Cumbria

171.09

Derbyshire

141.91

Devon and Cornwall

131.73

Dorset

156.51

Durham

135.72

Essex

116.46

Gloucestershire

179.49

Hampshire

125.37

Hertfordshire

130.17

Humberside

149.58

Kent

122.18

Lancashire

125.95

Leicestershire

138.96

Lincolnshire

131.58

Norfolk

164.88

Northamptonshire

170.21

North Yorkshire

185.40

Nottinghamshire

138.78

Staffordshire

160.15

Suffolk

137.34

Surrey

171.27

Sussex

122.67

Thames Valley

139.19

Warwickshire

145.90

West Mercia

157.66

Wiltshire

139.35

Average Shires

140.94

Greater Manchester

116.19

Merseyside

127.53

Northumbria

74.62

South Yorkshire

118.92

West Midlands

91.47

West Yorkshire

118.02

Average Mets

107.48

Average England (Exc. London)

133.22

Metropolitan

223.60

Average England (inc. London)

147.90

Dyfed-Powys

157.68

Gwent

159.94

North Wales

178.16

South Wales

132.74

Average Wales

153.03

Average England and Wales

148.21

Source: English police authorities—DCLG Welsh police authorities—WAG