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Parish council tax bills rise 'to save services from cuts'

Parish council tax bills rise 'to save services from cuts'

In June 2019 Rob England reported on data showing that dozens of parishes in England had doubled their council tax bills, with interviews indicating that some were taking on services they said larger authorities could no longer afford.

Get the data

• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: Council Tax statistics
• XLSX: Analysis, including categorisation by BBC radio area and data for charts

Quotes and interviews

• Prof Alistair Jones, De Montfort University Local Governance Research Centre
• Councillor Sandie Webb, leader of Chippenham Town Council
• Mark Smith, Chief Executive, Chippenham Town Council
• Councillor Philip Whitehead, cabinet member for finance, Wiltshire Council
• Ben Berridge, chairman, Lilbourne Council
• Shar Roselman, town clerk, Newport Pagnell Council
• Spokeswoman, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)

Visualisation

• Column chart: Rise in parish and town council tax funding in England 2015/16-2019/20
• Bar chart: Which parishes had the biggest funding boost? Increase (£) in parish precepts collected in 2019 compared to 2018
• Stacked bar chart: Parishes with the largest rises in council tax for 2019-20 (parish and council tax)
• Line chart: Average band D council tax in England, 2011/12-2019/20