Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2016 to Question 23515, what estimate he has made of the total cost to people who pay council tax of that tax in (a) Stevenage, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
This information is available on the Government website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-council-tax
The table shows that the average levels of Band D council tax (including parish precepts) in those years are:
| 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
England | £1,468 | £1,484 |
Hertfordshire1 | £1,380 - £1,516 | £1,402 - £1,539 |
Stevenage | £1,455 | £1,477 |
1: Range from lowest (Broxbourne) to highest (Watford)