Council Tax Grant Shapps To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the gross value was of council tax receipts in (a) England, (b) each local authority and (c) each Government office region expressed in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in each year since 1997-98. Barbara Follett For information in respect of England as a whole I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) on 19 January 2010, Official Report, columns 281-82W. For information in respect of the individual billing authorities in England I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 20 October 2009, Official Report, column 1389W and on 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 214W. Information on council tax collected in each Government office region in England from 1997-98 to 2008-09 in both cash and real terms is given in the following tables. -------------------------- |£ million | -------------------------- | |1997-98|1998-99|1999-2000|2000-01|2001-02|2002-03|2003-04|2004-05|2005-06|2006-07|2007-08|2008-09| -------------------------- |North East |449|488|520|555|593|648|709|755|793|828|872|902| -------------------------- |North West1 |1,310|1,424|1,519|1,623|1,733|1,860|2,034|2,063|2,235|2,349|2,475|2,570| -------------------------- |Yorkshire and the Humber|866|949|1,014|1,087|1,171|1,277|1,415|1,512|1,595|1,668|1,755|1,835| -------------------------- |East Midlands |773|860|935|1,013|1,087|1,213|1,334|1,433|1,502|1,575|1,653|1,738| -------------------------- |West Midlands |940|1,027|1,113|1,198|1,298|1,421|1,573|1,662|1,743|1,813|1,918|1,996| -------------------------- |East of England |1,051|1,190|1,306|1,427|1,542|1,722|1,977|2,122|2,225|2,345|2,484|2,613| -------------------------- |London |1,386|1,486|1,616|1,767|1,944|2,099|2,448|2,617|2,771|2,888|3,051|3,171| -------------------------- |South East1 |1,716|1,926|2,092|2,260|2,435|2,696|3,102|3,267|3,506|3,691|3,892|4,098| -------------------------- |South West |995|1,109|1,203|1,312|1,406|1,576|1,801|1,942|2,048|2,158|2,274|2,395| -------------------------- |England |9,488|10,459|11,318|12,242|13,208|14,511|16,392|17,372|18,419|19,315|20374|21,319| -------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- |£ million | ----------------------------------------------------- | |1997-98|1998-99|1999-2000|2000-01|2001-02|2002-03|2003-04|2004-05|2005-06|2006-07|2007-08|2008-09| ----------------------------------------------------- |North East |614|642|674|699|733|789|837|870|885|902|909|902| ----------------------------------------------------- |North West1 |1,794|1,875|1,968|2,042|2,142|2,266|2,403|2,377|2,497|2,559|2,578|2,570| ----------------------------------------------------- |Yorkshire and the Humber |1,186|1,249|1,313|1,368|1,448|1,555|1,671|1,742|1,781|1,817|1,829|1,835| ----------------------------------------------------- |East Midlands |1,058|1,132|1,211|1,274|1,343|1,477|1,575|1,651|1,678|1,715|1,722|1,738| ----------------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |1,288|1,352|1,441|1,507|1,605|1,731|1,858|1,916|1,947|1,975|1,998|1,996| ----------------------------------------------------- |East of England |1,439|1,566|1,692|1,795|1,906|2,097|2,334|2,445|2,485|2,553|2,588|2,613| ----------------------------------------------------- |London |1,898|1,956|2,093|2,223|2,403|2,556|2,891|3,016|3,095|3,145|3,178|3,171| ----------------------------------------------------- |South East1 |2,350|2,535|2,710|2,843|3,010|3,284|3,664|3,764|3,916|4,020|4,055|4,098| ----------------------------------------------------- |South West |1,363|1,459|1,558|1,651|1,738|1,919|2,127|2,238|2,288|2,350|2,370|2,395| ----------------------------------------------------- |England |12,990|13,766|14,661|15,401|16,328|17,674|19,360|20,019|20,572|21,036|21,227|21,319| ----------------------------------------------------- |1 Data for two authorities not received in 2004-05.| ----------------------------------------------------- The data are taken from the Quarterly Return of Council Tax and Non-domestic rates returns completed annually by all billing authorities in England and the real terms data are given at 2008-09 prices.