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Dept of the Environment

Answer

Mr. William Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his latest estimate of the arrears of outstanding uncollected (a) domestic rates, (b) business rates, (c) community charge and (d) council tax for each collecting authority in Northamptonshire. [15728] Sir Paul Beresford: Estimates of the levels of business rates, community charge and council tax arrears for individual authorities are published regularly by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. The latest information relates to the position at 31 March 1995 and is available in the "Revenue Collection Statistics 1994-95" publication in the Library. Information on the arrears of domestic rates is not available. The latest available figures for the Northamptonshire authorities and the dates to which they relate are as follow: £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Estimated arrears of: Business rates Community charges Council taxes Corby (31 March 1995) 211 1,189 451 Daventry (31 March 1993) 475 1,663 -- East Northamptonshire -- -- -- Kettering (31 March 1994) 390 860 463 Northampton -- -- -- South Northamptonshire (31 March 1,092 368 205 1995) Wellingborough (31 March 1993) 804 1,099 -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. -- No information has been published by CIPFA for East Northamptonshire or Northampton since community charge was abolished.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

15728; 290 c446W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Community charge Council tax Rates and rating Non-payment Northamptonshire Unpaid taxes

Contains statistics

Yes