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Local Government Finance

Volume 502: debated on Monday 7 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what percentage of the external finance in each local authority in England was generated from (a) fees and charges, (b) council tax and (c) central Government funding in (i) 1992, (ii) 1997 and (iii) 2007; (302117)

(2) if he will rank each English London local authority in order of the percentage of total income generated from council tax in 2008-09.

I have today placed in the Library of the House a table that gives, by each local authority in England, the percentage of income generated from (a) fees and charges, (b) council tax and (c) central Government funding in 2007-08.

Estimates for 1992-93 and 1997-98 are not available as they could be made only at disproportionate cost.

Information on some of the elements of total income required to produce estimates for 2008-09 has not yet been compiled.