To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ludlow, of 14 September 2009, Official Report, column 2135W, on the Valuation Office: ICT, what the breakdown by category of expenditure was of the £6.7 million of expenditure on the automated valuation model since September 2005; and which Minister authorised that expenditure. (294445)

The breakdown of the £6.7 million expenditure is as follows:

This expenditure was originally approved by the former Minister for Local Government in 2005.