To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many public houses of special category codes 226 and 227 and primary description code CL were on the Valuation Office Agency’s Rating List in each local authority area in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. (306556)

I have been asked to reply.

Special category codes 226 and 227 did not refer to Public Houses in the 1995 Rating Lists. However, I have deposited a table in the Library of the House which includes the number of public houses in the Rating Lists for each local authority in England, with primary description code CL, at April 1997 and primary description code CL and special category codes 226 and 227 at April 2009.