To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 5 February 2008, Official Report, column 1033W, on Property: Databases, which local authorities submit billing authority reports to the Valuation Office Agency via the Valuebill electronic interface. (202468)

The following local authorities submitted electronic billing authority reports (eBARs) to the Valuation Office Agency between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2007:

Amber Valley

Arun

Barnsley

Barrow-In-Furness

Basildon

Berwick Upon Tweed

Bexley

Birmingham

Blackburn With Darwen

Borough of Poole

Bournemouth

Braintree

Breckland

Brent

Brentwood

Bristol City

Broadland

Bromley

Bromsgrove

Burnley

Caerphilly

Caradon

Carmarthenshire

Carrick

Castle Morpeth

Castle Point

Ceredigion

Chelmsford

Chester Le Street

City And County Of Kingston-Upon-Hull

Colchester

Congleton

Copeland

Coventry

Crewe and Nantwich

Denbighshire

Derwentside

Doncaster

Dudley

Easington

East Cambridgeshire

East Dorset

East Hampshire

East Riding Of Yorkshire

East Staffordshire

Eastbourne

Eastleigh

Eden

Ellesmere Port and Neston

Epping Forest

Epsom and Ewell

Fareham

Forest Heath

Gosport

Great Yarmouth

Greenwich

Gwynedd

Hackney

Haringey

Harlow

Hart

Hartlepool

Hastings

Havant

Havering

Hertsmere

Hyndburn

Isle of Wight

Kennet

Kensington and Chelsea

Kettering

Kings Lynn and West Norfolk

Kingston Upon Thames

Lambeth

Leeds

Lichfield

Macclesfield

Maldon

Manchester

Medway

Mendip

Merthyr Tydfil

Merton

Middlesbrough

Neath And Port Talbot

New Forest

Newham

Newport

North East Lincolnshire

North Shropshire

North Tyneside

North Warwickshire

Norwich

Nuneaton and Bedworth

Oswestry

Pembrokeshire

Plymouth

Portsmouth City

Powys

Preston

Redcar And Cleveland

Ribble Valley

Richmond Upon Thames

Rochford

Rossendale

Rotherham

Rugby

Rushcliffe

Rushmoor

Rutland

Salisbury

Sandwell

Sedgefield

Sevenoaks

Sheffield

Shrewsbury and Atcham

Solihull

South Bedfordshire

South Gloucestershire

South Norfolk

South Kibble

South Somerset

South Tyneside

Southwark

Stevenage

Stoke On Trent

Stratford On Avon

Suffolk Coastal

Sunderland

Sutton

Swansea

Tamworth

Taunton Deane

Teesdale

Teignbridge

Telford And Wrekin

Test Valley

Thanet

Thurrock

Tonbridge and Malling

Torbay

Torfaen

Tower Hamlets

Tunbridge Wells

Wakefield

Waltham Forest

Wandsworth

Wansbeck

Warwick

Waveney

Waverley

Wear Valley

Welwyn Hatfield

West Devon

West Lindsey

Westminster City

Wirral

Wolverhampton

Worcester

Worthing

Wrexham

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether local billing authorities are required to adopt the Valuebill interface; and what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on its adoption. (202633)

Valuebill is a voluntary initiative aimed at improving the electronic exchange of property information between local authorities and the Valuation Office Agency. It is up to local authorities to decide whether to adopt the Valuebill interface. Valuebill is mentioned in the ODPM 2005 publication “Delivering Efficiency in Local Services: Further Guidance for Local Authorities” as an initiative to assist local authorities in increasing efficiency.