Council Tax: East of England
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
David Ruffley (- Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Bury St Edmunds, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average change in the level of council tax from one year to the next has been in each county in the East of England in each year since 1999.
Barbara Follett (Minister of State (the East of England), Regional Affairs; Stevenage, Labour)
Details of the year-on-year change in average Band D council tax for the six county councils in the East of England region are shown in the following table.
| £ | ||||||||||
| 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | |
| Bedfordshire | 52 | 52 | 91 | 122 | 92 | 59 | 66 | 61 | 64 | — |
| Cambridgeshire | 62 | 58 | 106 | 97 | 86 | 54 | 59 | 62 | 64 | 56 |
| Essex | 60 | 63 | 86 | 155 | 67 | 40 | 57 | 58 | 58 | 35 |
| Hertfordshire | 57 | 49 | 83 | 163 | 67 | 57 | 59 | 63 | 61 | 49 |
| Norfolk | 51 | 59 | 93 | 149 | 75 | 39 | 62 | 64 | 59 | 46 |
| Suffolk | 55 | 57 | 108 | 182 | 53 | 36 | 56 | 57 | 59 | 39 |
The figures are calculated from data reported on the Budget Requirement (BR1 and BR2) forms submitted annually by all billing and precepting authorities in England.
No figure is given for Bedfordshire for 2009-10 as, following the reorganisation of councils in that county from
The underlying data used in calculating the annual change are calculated by dividing the sum of the council tax requirement for all billing and precepting authorities in the county area by the average Band D council taxbase for the county. No unitary authorities were included in the calculations and the data also exclude the element of the police and fire authority council tax requirement for the unitary authority areas.