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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Philip Hollobone (Con - Kettering) Friend please facilitate a meeting in Kettering with the Department’s regional director for the east midlands - Speech Link
2: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) We had really positive discussions about the exciting lecturer reservist pilot that will run in the west - Speech Link

Written Question

Local Government Finance

Monday 29th April 2024

Asked by: Nicola Richards (Conservative - West Bromwich East)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the average mayoral precept in each mayoral authority.

Answered by Jacob Young - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

The Government publishes data on the average Band D council tax set by each individual authority - including mayoral combined authorities - in the annual council tax levels publication. Band D is used as the standard for comparing council tax levels between and across local authorities. Individual local authorities also publish further details about their council tax charges.

The average Band D council tax set by each local authority for 2024-25 are as follows:

Authority	Average council tax for the authority (Band D) – general functions of the mayor £	Average council tax for the Authority (Band D) – Police and Crime Commissioner functions of the mayor £
West Midlands	0.00	N/A
Greater Manchester	112.95 (Note 1)	256.30
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	36.00	N/A
Liverpool City Region	19.00	N/A
North of Tyne	0.00 (Note 2)	N/A
South Yorkshire	0.00	N/A
Tees Valley	0.00	N/A
West Yorkshire	0.00	249.28

Greater London Authority	166.27 (Note 3)	305.13

Note 1: Greater Manchester’s general functions includes the responsibility for Fire and Rescue provision. This is not the case for any other Authority and so the figure is not directly comparable.

Note 2: The North of Tyne Combined Authority will be replaced by the newly established North East Mayoral Combined Authority.

Note 3: Greater London Authority is not a Combined Authority and therefore the Mayor has different roles and responsibilities which are not directly comparable.

Parliamentary Research
Old Oak Common Station - CBP-9998
Apr. 26 2024

Found: This line is used by trains between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport, the west and south west