To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate her Department has made of the average (a) business rate bill and (b) aggregate business rate revenue at (i) the end of transitional relief period in 2009-10 and (ii) the point at which the 5 per cent. rise in the multiplier will be applied in 2009-10. (274750)

No information is held centrally on individual businesses' bills; therefore the average change in business rates bills cannot be calculated.

The reduction in rate yield due to full rate increases being deferred for 2008-09 was £106 million. The net change in yield as a result of transitional relief in 2008-09 was £69.4 million. Data for 2009-10 are not yet available.

In 2009-10 businesses will be able to defer a proportion of their business rates bill increase. Following is a link to an announcement of the Government's plans for deferral, which includes an estimate of the cost of the proposal:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/localgovernment/1191049

This estimate will be updated in the impact assessment that will be undertaken and published as part of the process of making the necessary secondary legislation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many hereditaments in each Government office region have a rateable value of less than £10,000. (274752)

The numbers of hereditaments with a rateable value of less than £10,000, by Government office region, are shown in the following table.

The data are as at 31 March 2009 and are from the Valuation Office Agency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the gross cost before the application of downward phasing was of providing transitional relief in respect of business rate revaluation in England in each year from 2005-06. (274753)

The reduction in rate yield on the local list due to full rate increases being deferred for each year from 2005-06 is shown in the table:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will make it her policy to (a) undertake and (b) publish a (i) small firms and (ii) privacy impact assessment in respect of the 2010 business rate revaluation. (274909)

The 2010 business rates revaluation takes effect from 1 April 2010. We will publish a draft impact assessment alongside our proposals for transitional arrangements to phase in changes in rate bills as a result of the revaluation later in the summer.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government by what date businesses must apply in order to be eligible for the deferral of 2009-10 business rate increases. (274910)

The Government are currently considering the further detail and administrative arrangements for the business rates deferral scheme, working collaboratively with the local government sector and business to ensure ease of implementation.

The regulations authorising the scheme are planned to come into effect this summer and will set out in detail the application process and timetable. Businesses will be contacted by their billing authority and invited to apply for the scheme shortly after the regulations come into effect.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 5 June 2008, Official Report, columns 1067-68W, on non-domestic rates, what estimate her Department has made of the maximum revenue that would be raised in England from supplementary business rates based on (a) 2009 rateable values and (b) 2010 rateable values post-revaluation calculated on the same basis as the estimates provided for maximum revenue based on 2007 rateable values in Table 3.4 of Business Rate Supplements: A White Paper. (274935)

The Department has not made any further calculations of possible future revenues from supplementary business rates beyond those based on 2007 rateable values and published in Table 3.4 of Business Rate Supplements: A White Paper.