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Treasury

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Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the percentage of taxpayers who are higher-rate taxpayers (a) in each county in England and (b) in equivalent areas in (i) Scotland, (ii) Wales and (iii) Northern Ireland. [89812] Dawn Primarolo: The table shows approximate estimates of the percentage of taxpayers who are subject to higher rate tax for 1996-97, the latest year for which these estimates are available. These estimates are based on a sample survey and the sample size is not large enough to allow separate estimates to be made for some unitary authorities in Scotland and Wales or for Northern Ireland areas other than Belfast. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Area Percentage of higher rate taxpayers England 9 North East Former County of Cleveland 6 Durham 5 Northumberland 8 Tyne and Wear 4 North West and Merseyside Cheshire 9 Cumbria 6 Greater Manchester 6 Lancashire 6 Merseyside 5 Yorkshire and the Humber Former County of Humberside 6 North Yorkshire 8 South Yorkshire 5 West Yorkshire 6 East Midlands Derbyshire 6 Leicestershire 8 Lincolnshire 7 Northamptonshire 8 Nottinghamshire 6 West Midlands Hereford and Worcester 8 Shropshire 7 Staffordshire 5 Warwickshire 11 West Midlands 5 Eastern Bedfordshire 10 Cambridgeshire 11 Essex 11 Hertfordshire 14 Norfolk 6 Suffolk 7 London 12 South East Berkshire 15 Buckinghamshire 18 East Sussex 8 Hampshire 10 Isle of Wight 3 Kent 8 Oxfordshire 13 Surrey 18 West Sussex 11 South West Former County of Avon 8 Cornwall 5 Devon 5 Dorset 8 Gloucestershire 8 Somerset 6 Wiltshire 8 Scotland 7 Aberdeen City Unitary Authority 9 Aberdeenshire Unitary Authority 11 Angus Unitary Authority 10 Argyll and Bute Unitary Authority 11 Dumfries and Galloway Unitary Authority 3 Dundee City Unitary Authority 6 East Dumbartonshire Unitary Authority 6 East Lothian Unitary Authority 7 East Renfrewshire Unitary Authority 14 Edinburgh, City of Unitary Authority 10 Fife Unitary Authority 6 Glasgow City Unitary Authority 3 Highland Unitary Authority 7 Moray Unitary Authority 6 North Ayrshire Unitary Authority 8 North Lanarkshire Unitary Authority 4 Perth and Kinross Unitary Authority 8 Renfrewshire Unitary Authority 6 Scottish Borders, The Unitary Authority 8 South Ayrshire Unitary Authority 8 South Lanarkshire Unitary Authority 7 Stirling Unitary Authority 7 Rest of Country 4 Wales 3 Carmarthenshire Unitary Authority 3 Cardiff Unitary Authority 6 Conwy Unitary Authority 6 Flintshire Unitary Authority 6 Gwynedd Unitary Authority 4 Monmouthshire Unitary Authority 5 Powys Unitary Authority 3 Swansea Unitary Authority 5 The Vale of Glamorgan Unitary Authority 7 Wrexham Unitary Authority 6 Rest of country 3 Northern Ireland 5 Belfast 6 Rest of country 5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: `Rest of country' covers areas where sample sizes were too small to allow reasonable estimates to be made for individual areas.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

89812; 334 c548-50W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Income tax Tax rates and bands Taxpayers

Contains statistics

Yes