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Mr. Kenneth Baker : I announced on 19 December last year the outcome of a review of the prison service estate which had been conducted in 1990. I said then that there would be a further review in the light of the projections of the prison population which would be available in early 1991. Revised projections were published on 21 May and a copy is in the Library.
The further review has now reached its consultative stage. It has taken into account :
the new projections ;
the opening between April this year and 1993 of 10 new local prisons and remand centres ; and
the accelerated programme to end slopping out by the end of 1994, which I announced on 25 February.
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I also asked the prison service to have regard to the relevant proposals in the report of Lord Justice Woolf and Judge Stephen Tumim on the prison disturbances in April 1990 (Cm. 1456), in particular the removal of unsuitable prisons from the estate and the development of a prison or cluster of prisons which would serve most of the needs of a community. The proposals for the prison estate arising from this review are consistent with the approach suggested by Woolf. Planning is founded on geographical clusters of establishments and my proposals are aimed at improving the balance of accommodation in each of the main areas of population.All the following proposals will be subject to full consultation with staff and other interests.
At this stage 15 establishments could be affected by proposed changes in their role as follows :
Establishment |Role
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HMYOI Castington |To be retained as a young
|offender institution.
HMYOI Deerbolt |Establishment of a juvenile unit
|within existing buildings (in
|1992-93).
HMP Nottingham |To be retained as a training
|establishment.
HMYOI Lancaster Farms |To be used as a remand centre
|as well as a young offender
|institution (in 1992-93).
HMP Risley |To be used as both a local and
|training prison as new accom-
|modation comes into use.
HMP Leeds |To be used as both a training
|and a local prison as new accommodation comes into use.
HMP Stafford |To postpone part conversion to
|local prison to 1995-96.
HMP Gloucester |To convert from local prison to
|a remand centre (in 1992-93).
HMYOI Eastwood Park |To close as a young offender
|institution (in 1992-93) and re-open as a female establish-
|ment (in 1993-94).
HMYOI Hollesley Bay Colony |To convert to part adult use (in
|1992-93).
HMP Bedford |To convert partly to a remand
|centre (in 1992-93).
HMP Reading |To convert to a remand
|centre (in 1992-93).
HMP Elmley |To open as part local and part
|category C training prison (in
|1991-92).
HMP Coldingley |To convert from a category B
|to a category C training prison
|(in 1992-93).
HMYOI Guys Marsh |To convert partly to a remand
|centre (in 1992-93).
It is also proposed that the following establishments should close, mainly because the quality of their living accommodation renders them unsuitable for continued prison service use :
HMYOI Kirklevington Grange
HMYOI Werrington
HMYOI Hewell Grange
HMYOI Finnamore Wood Camp
HMRC Pucklechurch
HMP Oxford
HMP Aldington
These closures would take place in 1992-93, except for that of HMRC Pucklechurch which would close in 1993-94. In addition some units at HMP Drake Hall, HMP Highpoint and HMP Norwich would also close.
Making the best use of the estate is, of course, a matter of continuing concern and activity, for example adjusting
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catchment areas for prisons which serve the courts. In the light of this I may want to make further proposals for changing the use of the estate in due course.I am seeking the views of staff, boards of visitors and the trade unions on these proposals and have placed in the Library copies of a background note to them.
When these consultations are complete. I shall make a further announcement.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will request the Governor of the Bank of England to report to the House in due course on all matters related to the closure of BCCI.
Mr. Maples : The Governor appeared before the Treasury and Civil Service Committee on Tuesday 23 July.
Mr. Meale : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in what lists of accredited or approved banking or related institutions, issued by his Department or by the Bank of England, the BCCI was included, before its collapse ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maples : The BCCI was authorised to take deposits under the Banking Act 1987 and therefore included in any list of such institutions, such as the list which the Bank of England is required to publish under section 17 of the Banking Act.
Ms. Abbott : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will ensure the publication of the September 1990 Price Waterhouse report on BCCI commissioned by the College of Regulators ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Norman Lamont : No. Any reports commissioned by the College of Regulators would be covered by the provisions of the Banking Act which prevents disclosure except in exceptional circumstances. The audit reports which the Bank of England received on BCCI will, however, be available to the inquiry under Lord Justice Bingham which was announced to the House in my statement of Friday 19 July, at columns 715-29, and details of which were given in my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's statement of Monday 22 July, at columns 757-64.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Mr. Alfred Morris : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was learned from the Bank of England's inquiries into Barlow Clowes about the use made by Barlow Clowes of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International and about the proprieties of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International's role in that case.
Mr. Norman Lamont [holding answer 19 July 1991] : Nothing. The Bank's inquiries into Barlow Clowes were focused on that organisation's United Kingdom activities and in particular whether it was in breach of the 1979 Banking Act. The Bank's direct interest ended in October 1985 with the grant to Barlow Clowes of a prevention of fraud (investment) licence following reorganisation of the business.
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the funding of the inquiry into the affairs of BCCI.
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Mr. Maples : Parliamentary approval to this new service will be sought in a supplementary estimate for the HM Treasury vote (class XVIII vote 1). Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £500,000 will be met by repayable advances from the contingencies fund.Column 600
Charities (Tax Relief)
Mr. Thurnham : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total amount of charitable donations for which tax relief was given in each of the last 15 years.
Mr. Maude : The available information is as follows :
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Donations to charities subject to tax relief
|Covenants<1> |Donations |Transfers to |Single |Gift aid<1><3>
|under the |charities on |donations
|payroll giving |death<2> |from
|scheme |companies<1><3>
|£ million |£ million |£ million |£ million |£ million
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1976-77 |Not available |- |50 |- |-
1977-78 |Not available |- |50 |- |-
1978-79 |140 |- |78 |- |-
1979-80 |180 |- |94 |- |-
1980-81 |200 |- |67 |- |-
1981-82 |250 |- |92 |- |-
1982-83 |300 |- |135 |- |-
1983-84 |350 |- |202 |- |-
1984-85 |400 |- |231 |- |-
1985-86 |450 |- |302 |- |-
1986-87 |500 |- |326 |4 |-
1987-88 |650 |1 |<4>330 |9 |-
1988-89 |700 |3.5 |<4>340 |21 |-
1989-90 |725 |7 |<4>380 |28 |-
1990-91 |<4>825 |<4>10 |<4>380 |<4>17 |<4>43
<1> Includes tax repayments to charities by Inland Revenue.
<2> Covers estates above the capital transfer tax/inheritance tax threshold. For transfers made before 15 March
1983 and on or within one year
of death, the amount of transfer qualifying for relief was limited; amounts in excess of the limits are
excluded from the figures.
<3> Single donations from companies are included under gift aid from October 1990.
<4> Provisional.
Long-term Care
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his policy on the taxation of benefits paid for by, or provided out of, insurance or pension-related policies for long-term care.
Mr. Maude : Insurance or pension-related policies providing long- term health care benefits are only just beginning to become available in the United Kingdom. These policies may take a number of forms. The appropriate tax treatment of the benefits payable under those policies will depend on the precise form the policy takes.
Value Added Tax
Mr. Donald Thompson : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many claims by do-it-yourself house builders for refunds of value added tax under the provisions of Customs and Excise Notice No. 719 were met in whole or in part during the years ended31 December 1989 and 31 December 1990.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : A total of 9,585 claims were paid by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise in 1989 and 9,886 in 1990.
EC Directives
Mr. Favell : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his latest estimate of the cost of the implementation of European Community draft directive documentNo. 8162/90 on procurement procedures to (a) the Exchequer (i) directly and (ii) channelled via the European institutions and (b) industry.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : European Community document No. 8162/90 has been overtaken by the
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Commission's modified proposal, 6925/91, and subsequent discussions in the Council. The proposal is for a directive--the remedies directive--to ensure compliance with the procurement procedures applicable to the utilities in the energy, telecommunications, transport and water sectors under Council directive 90/531/EEC. Both directives are to be brought into effect in most member states by 1 January 1993. In the form in which it is likely to be adopted the remedies directive will involve the same basic system as Council directive 89/665/EEC, the parallel provision for ensuring compliance with the supplies and works directives by the public bodies to which they apply. Suppliers and contractors harmed by a breach of Community procurement law, or the national rules which implement it, will be able to seek remedies from the courts. It is too soon to estimate the likely number of cases and thus to estimate the costs to the court system. There will be some administrative costs in providing information to the Commission about alleged breaches and in establishing an attestation system under which the utilities may voluntarily subject their procurement procedures and practices to independent examination and certification. There may also be minor administrative costs in forwarding to the Commission applications for the use of a voluntary conciliation procedure. There will be additional costs to the Commission in monitoring compliance with the underlying procurement directive and the Commission has now estimated that the expenses of advisory committee discussions on the present proposal will be of the order of £13,000 a year. There would be additional costs for the European Court of Justice if an increased number of references to it under article 177/EEC resulted from the directive. Costs to the utilities will depend on the number of cases taken to court and can be avoided by compliance with the underlying procurement directive. The Council's rejection of a Commission proposal for compulsory attestation has removed a significant potential cost for the utilities. Last minute amendments to the provisions for the conciliation procedure as an alternative to litigation will put the costs on the parties concerned.Civil Service
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the percentage of civil service jobs located in Scotland as a percentage of the total number of civil servant jobs in Great Britain in 1979, 1985 and the latest available date for which figures are available.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : The percentages are as follows :
Percentage of all civil servants
employed in Scotland
|Percentage
---------------------------------
1979 |9.7
1985 |10.4
1990 |9.8
Note: 1990 is the latest year
for which figures are available.
Source: Civil Service
Statistics.
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will list the units and the Government Departments of which they formed part which moved to Scotland as part of the relocation of civil service jobs, the number of jobs involved in each case and the site in Scotland to which they moved, between 1979 and the latest date for which figures are available ;
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(2) if he will give the total number of civil service jobs relocated between 1979 and the latest date for which figures are available and the percentage of these which moved to Scotland ; (3) if he will list the number of civil service jobs re-located from other parts of the United Kingdom to Scotland in each year since 1979.Mrs. Gillian Shepherd : Prior to the introduction of current relocation policy in March 1988, it is estimated that Departments moved a total of some 12,000 posts out of the south-east, about half under the Government's centrally directed dispersal programme and half at departments' own initiative. Comprehensive data on posts which were located or relocated at departments' own initiative are not held centrally, but the Inland Revenue opened a new office in Cumbernauld in 1987 with 32 posts. Relocations to Scotland under the dispersal programme were as follows :
Department |Number of posts|Location ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOD: including pay and records offices; Directorate of Contract; Defence Certification Authority etc |1,330 |Glasgow ODA (including Overseas Manpower Services, Pensions and Account departments, etc); Crown Agents Pensions Division |600 |East Kilbride
Since March 1988, nearly 9,300 further posts have been located or relocated outside the south-east by Government Departments. Of these, the following related to Scotland :
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Department |Number of |Location
|posts
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Department of Social Security |510 |Glasgow
Inland Revenue: new TOBBI office |43 |Glenrothes
Inland Revenue: PAYE work |40 |Edinburgh
|40 |Glasgow
|25 |Livingston
Inland Revenue: Operations division-specialist tax work |10 |Glasgow
Home Office (Passport Office) |88 |Glasgow
Ministry of Defence (Contracts branch) |70 |Glasgow
Overseas Development Administration: including statistics, staff training and personnel work |53 |East Kilbride
Cabinet Office: Civil Service Occupational Health Service |22 |Edinburgh
Office of Electricity Regulation: local offices |18 |Edinburgh
|4 |Perth
Department of Trade and Industry: Insolvency Service posts |5 |Edinburgh
|---------
Total |928
Department Number of posts Location
Department of Social Security : work transferred from London social security offices 510 Glasgow
Inland Revenue : new TOBBI office 43 Glenrothes
Inland Revenue : PAYE work 40
40
25 Edinburgh
Glasgow
Livingston
Inland Revenue : Operations division--specialist tax work 10 Glasgow
Home Office (Passport Office) 88 Glasgow
Ministry of Defence (Contracts branch) 70 Glasgow
Overseas Development Administration : including statistics, staff training and personnel work 53 East Kilbride
Cabinet Office : Civil Service Occupational Health Service 22 Edinburgh
Office of Electricity Regulation : local offices 18
4 Edinburgh
Perth
Department of Trade and Industry : Insolvency Service posts 5 Edinburgh
Total-- 928
Altogether, at least 2,890 posts have been located or relocated to Scotland since April 1979, which represents over 13 per cent. of total posts located or relocated away from the south-east. A broad annual breakdown for these posts is as follows :
|Number
---------------------
1979 |0
1980 |0
1981 |425
1982 |170
1983 |190
1984 |75
1985 |1,070
1986 |0
1987 |30
1988 |110
1989 |305
1990 |440
1991 |75
Further locations and relocations to Scotland are now planned by departments which will involve more than 1,500 extra posts. These include further posts for the Inland Revenue TOBBI office at Glenrothes ; new TOBBI offices at Falkirk and Dundee ; a new PAYE office at East Kilbride ; a new DSS Child Support Agency office for Falkirk and new Health and Safety Executive oil safety directorate posts for Aberdeen.
Football Pools
Mr. Pendry : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing the sums received by the Exchequer from football pools betting duty for each year since 1979-80 and as a total over the same period.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : Receipts from pool betting duty were as follows :
|£ million
------------------------------------
1979-80 |136.1
1980-81 |157.0
1981-82 |176.0
1982-83 |199.3
1983-84 |204.9
1984-85 |218.0
1985-86 |235.3
1986-87 |254.2
1987-88 |277.0
1988-89 |279.0
1989-90 |303.8
1990-91 |303.9
|-------
|2,744.5
Duty-free Shopping
Mr. Hind : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the future of duty-free shopping for travellers within the European Community.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : The Government have carefully considered all the evidence received from industries likely to be affected by abolition of the current duty-free arrangements in the light of the European Commission's position that duty-free should cease for intra-EC traffic as part of the dismantling of fiscal frontiers at the end of 1992. The Government feel that there is no case for indefinite retention of duty- frees once the single market has been established, but that a substantial transition period would be helpful to give affected industries time to reorganise and seek alternative sources of revenue. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be arguing for such a transition in forthcoming negotiations in Brussels.
Council Tax
Mr. Burns : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Inland Revenue will commence the valuation of domestic properties in preparation for the introduction of the council tax ; and how their costs will be financed.
Mr. Maples : Subject to the enactment of the Local Government Finance and Valuation Bill the preparatory work on the valuation of domestic properties will begin in
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August 1991. This preparatory work will be put in hand by the Inland Revenue Valuation Office on behalf of the Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office and will include the direction of the work in Scotland for the Scottish Office.Parliamentary approval for this new expenditure will be sought in supplementary estimates for the "Revenue support grant, payments of non- domestic rates, Valuation Office rating services etc., England Vote"--class VIII vote 9--the "Revenue support grant, Community charge reduction scheme grant and payments of national non-domestic rates, Wales Vote"--class XVI vote 10--the "Rate rebate grants transitional relief and community charge reduction grants, Scotland Vote"--class XV vote 22--and the "Inland Revenue administration Vote"--class XVIII vote 6.
Pending that approval urgent expenditure by the Inland Revenue estimated at £61 million will be met by repayable advances from the contingencies fund.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland is making a separate announcement about the arrangements in Scotland.
Civil Service Pay
Sir John Farr : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on civil service pay.
Mr. Norman Lamont : It is important that pay systems in the public sector should make a regular and direct link between a person's contribution to the standards of service provided and his or her reward. The Government have a direct responsibility as employer for over 550,000 civil servants. I would therefore like to explain how I see the pay systems in the civil service developing. Pay has an important part to play in raising the quality and improving the responsiveness of public services--a key theme in the citizens charter.
For most staff in the civil service other than those covered by the Top Salaries Review Body, pay is negotiated between the Treasurey and the recognised trade unions, mainly on the basis of pay agreements concluded over the past few years. The existence of such pay agreements, and their provision for negotiation of annual settlements on the basis of the interquartile range of private sector pay settlements, has provided useful stability in settling civil service pay. The agreements have also provided an important assurance to staff that pay will be determined fairly and within a clear and transparent framework, linked to their performance and career development. The Government continue to attach importance to these principles.
But any organisation must be able to adapt to changing needs. The Government now want to introduce more flexible pay regimes for the civil service, both nationally and locally.
The new pay system must meet the needs and objectives of departments and agencies ; they must be demonstrably beneficial to the citizen, fair to the employee and linked to the delivery of high-quality public services ; and they must be affordable. This means developing pay structures which reward good performance and penalise bad.
Progress has already been made in providing for pay flexibility, and further progress can be made in pursuing greater delegation, within the existing agreements. But the Government have concluded that the agreements as they
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stand do not provide a framework that is fully capable of meeting the needs of the 1990s. It has informed the unions that it wishes to negotiate changes to them.I therefore propose to introduce three new elements into civil service pay structures. The first is to put in place a range of forms of performance- related pay in order to achieve a closer link between performance and reward both for individuals and for groups of staff. This will be an important means of securing the objective of improving the quality of public services, which is at the heart of the citizens charter programme. Over time, performance will come to determine a larger proportion of the pay bill without performance pay becoming a disguised way of providing unacceptably high increases in the pay bill.
The second is further to enable responsibility for pay bargaining to be delegated to civil service departments or agencies, to allow them wider discretion in relation to their pay and grading regimes. Alternative pay and grading structures will be approved where they are expected to produce value-for-money benefits greater than through centrally controlled negotiation.
The third is to give an option to those departments and agencies for which such extensive discretion is not appropriate to negotiate for themselves flexibilities of their own within the total of the overall central pay settlement agreed by the Treasury.
The Government believe that in appropriate cases greater delegation of pay and grading arrangements can secure better value for money from the pay bill, increasing productivity and providing better services to the citizen as taxpayer. This will be a key consideration when the Treasury approves delegated pay and grading systems and increased flexibilities. The Government also believe that in the public sector, as in the private sector, there should be transparency about pay costs, including the effects of delegation. Those departments and agencies which do not at present do so will in future publish figures for the pay bill and for employment in the latest financial year in departmental reports or in agency accounts as companies are already obliged to do by the 1985 Companies Act. The work which the Civil Service does is of the highest importance for the prosperity of the nation and the welfare of its citizens. The proposals I have announced today will secure for the civil service future pay arrangements which suit the widely differing nature of its work, while enabling links to be maintained where these are useful. They will establish a proper relationship between pay and performance throughout the service. They will continue to allow informed collective bargaining ; secure the confidence of the public in the system and of staff that their pay will be determined fairly ; and enable the Government to ensure that a higher standard of service is delivered to the citizen while reconciling their responsibilities for the control of public expenditure with their responsibilities as an employer.
Tax Reliefs
Mr. Edwards : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) of 7 February, Official Report, columns 203-4 , if he will publish a table taking account of the changes announced in the 1991 Budget showing the
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revised costs in 1991-92 of (a) personal allowance, (b) married couples allowance, (c) age allowance, (d) mortgage interest relief, (e) relief on contributions to personal pensions, (f) relief on employees' contributions to occupational pension schemes and (g) relief on contributions to health insurance schemes, and where applicable, the direct revenue yields in a full year at 1991-92 levels of income from restricting income tax allowances and reliefs to the basic rate.Mr. Maude [holding answer 22 July 1991] : The latest estimates of the direct revenue costs for 1991-92 are as follows. Each relief has been costed separately ; the combined cost of more than one cannot, therefore, be calculated by summing the figures.
L
|£ million
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Personal allowance |26,500
Married couple's allowance |5,300
Age-related allowances<1> |700
Mortgage interest relief<2> |6,250
Relief on contributions to personal pensions<3> |1,300
Relief on employee's contributions to occupational
pension schemes |2,300
Relief on contributions to health insurance schemes |60
The estimated direct revenue yields in a full year at 1991-92 levels of income from restricting the following income tax allowances and reliefs to the basic rate are :
|£ million
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Personal allowance |970
Married couple's allowance |340
Age-related allowances<1> |Nil
Mortgage interest relief<2> |n.a.
Relief on contributions to personal pensions<3> |<4>150
Relief on employee's contributions to occupational
pension schemes |250
Relief on contributions to health insurance schemes |10
<1> The higher levels of the age-related personal and married
couple's allowances given to those aged 65 and over subject to the
income limit.
<2> Based on the assumption that currently announced interest rates
remain at these levels for the remainder of 1991-92.
<3> Including relief for retirement annuity premia and free standing
additional voluntary contributions.
<4> This estimate is subject to a wide margin of error.
n.a.-Not applicable.
The direct revenue yield from restricting all reliefs and allowances to the basic rate is likely to be of the order of £2,200 million, somewhat more than the sums of the yields from restricting the reliefs and allowances separately ; this is due to the cumulative effect of bringing more people into higher rate tax. No account has been taken of possible behavioural change resulting from such a restriction.
Taxation
Mr. Edwards : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will update the answer given to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) on 29 July 1988, Official Report, columns 735-36, giving figures for 1989- 90, 1990-91 and his latest forecast for the current financial year as a full year basis ; and if he will show the amount raised by value added tax, separately, for each financial year since 1978-79 and his latest forecast for the current financial year as a full year basis.
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Mrs. Gillian Shephard [holding answer 22 July 1991] : The information is as follows. The forecasts are consistent with the 1991 "Financial Statement and Budget Report". All figures are on an accruals basis as in the national income and expenditure accounts.Column 607
|Personal |National |Capital taxes|Corporate |Rates and |Value added |Other central
|income taxes |insurance |taxes<1> |community |tax |Government
|contributions |charge |expenditure
taxes
|£ billion |£ billion |£ billion |£ billion |£ billion |£ billion |£ billion
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1978-79 |19.1 |10.2 |0.8 |4.4 |5.8 |5.2 |13.0
1979-80 |21.1 |12.0 |1.0 |6.7 |6.8 |9.7 |15.6
1980-81 |24.9 |14.4 |1.2 |7.9 |8.7 |11.5 |17.4
1981-82 |29.2 |16.5 |1.7 |10.5 |10.7 |12.6 |21.1
1982-83 |30.5 |18.7 |1.5 |12.8 |12.1 |13.9 |21.2
1983-84 |31.7 |21.3 |1.7 |13.8 |12.3 |15.7 |22.4
1984-85 |33.3 |22.7 |1.9 |17.7 |12.9 |17.6 |23.0
1985-86 |35.8 |24.7 |2.2 |18.6 |13.9 |19.8 |24.1
1986-87 |38.1 |26.7 |2.6 |15.1 |15.7 |22.2 |26.6
1987-88 |41.4 |29.5 |2.9 |18.8 |17.1 |24.8 |28.4
1988-89 |43.7 |32.8 |4.1 |20.0 |19.2 |28.2 |29.9
1989-90 |49.5 |33.4 |4.0 |22.4 |20.8 |30.2 |31.3
1990-91 |56.2 |35.4 |4.2 |22.3 |24.0 |31.7 |32.4
<2>1991-92 |60.1 |37.2 |3.6 |19.1 |21.3 |37.6 |35.2
<1> Corporation tax (including advance corporation tax but excluding corporation tax on capital gains), petroleum revenue tax,
oil royalties,
IBA levy and supplementary petroleum duty.
<2> Forecast.
Mr. Edwards : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will update the answer given to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) of 29 July 1988, Official Report, column 736, and give figures for 1989-90 and 1990-91 and forecast 1991-92, taking account of the changes announced in the 1991 Budget, with poll tax and uniform business rate shown separately as appropriate.
Mr. Maude [holding answer 22 July 1991] : The figures requested are set out in the table. Reliable estimates of indirect tax payments cannot be made outside the range of three quarters to one and a half times average earnings. As in the answer given to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, local authority taxes are excluded.
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