Local Government Finance

Mr. Hinchliffe
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the impact the introduction of the poll tax will have on the retail prices index in April.

Mr. Norman Lamont
The Autumn Statement forecast is for RPI annual inflation to fall to 5¾ per cent. by the fourth quarter of 1990. It is not the practice to provide more detail than published in table 2.7 of the Autumn Statement.