To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 13 May 2009, Official Report, columns 51-52WS, on local government, what estimate she has made of the rate of Band D council tax to be charged in each billing authority in Surrey in 2009-10 following the capping and rebilling of Surrey Police Authority; and what estimate she has made of the change in the average Band D council tax bill in England in 2009-10 following the re-billing. (277018)

Subject to the House of Commons approving an order to cap Surrey police authority, the band D council tax charged by the police authority to each billing authority in Surrey in 2009-10 will be a maximum of £193.92. There would be no change to the 2009-10 average band D council tax level in England as published by my Department on 26 March.