To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much HM Revenue and Customs paid in refunds of value added tax to each local authority in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09; and for what reasons such refunds were made. (308687)

Section 18 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 prevents HM Revenue and Customs from disclosing information relating to the tax affairs of individual taxpayers; this includes public bodies.