Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 March 1988.
My hon. Friend is quite right. We have to reconsider our figures in the light of the Budget. I have to tell the House that we have not yet completed that exercise. Preliminary estimates show that instead of the top 10 per cent. of households paying 16 times as much as the bottom 10 per cent. towards the cost of local authority services, in future they are likely to be paying 15 times as much.