To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how many households in England have zero liability for council tax due to 100 per cent. council tax exemptions; (180158)

Table 1 of the statistics release “Local Authority Taxbase—2007 England” gives details of dwellings in England as at 8 October 2007 that were exempt from council tax. This release is available on the Communities and Local Government’s website at:

http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/ctax/ctbase07.htm