To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 21 January 2008, to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield, Official Report, columns 1527-28W, on housing, how many domestic dwellings were on the valuation list in each year since the establishment of council tax. (178620)

Details of the number of domestic dwellings on the valuation list are published each year in “Local Government Financial Statistics (England)”.

The information for 1993 was published in LGFS No. 4: 1990-91 to 1993-94, for 1994 in LGFS No. 5: 1994, for 1995 in LGFS No. 6: 1995, for 1996 in LGFS No. 7: 1996, for 1997 in LGFS No. 8: 1997, for 1998 in LGFS No. 9: 1998, for 1999 in LGFS No. 10: 1999, for 2000 in LGFS No. 11: 2000, for 2001 in LGFS No. 12: 2001 and for 2002 to 2006 in LGFS No. 17: 2007.

These publications are in the Library of the House and LGFS Nos. 11, 12 and 17 are also available on the Communities and Local Government website at

http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/fmance/stats/index.htm

The data are provided by the Valuation Office Agency.