To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley of 9 October 2008, Official Report, column 802W, on taxation, what account was taken of the taxation criteria of (a) fairness, (b) proportionality, (c) public interest and (d) protecting of public revenue criteria for taxation in the Valuation Office Agency's decisions on retrospective application of business rates to ports; and if he will make a statement. (232710)