To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was (a) billed to non-domestic rate payers and (b) collected in business rates by each local authority in the (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10 tax year. (301891)

I have, today, placed in the Library of the House a table that gives, by each billing authority in England, the net amount of non-domestic rates that each should have collected in 2008-09 after reliefs and the amount of non-domestic rates each collected in 2008-09.

Data for 2009-10 are not yet available.

These data are also available in Table 3 of the statistical release “Collection rates for council tax and non-domestic rates in England 2008-09” that was published on 25 June 2009 and is available on the Communities and Local Government website at:

www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/localregional/localgovernmentfinance/statistics/counciltax/collectionrates/