To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 October 2009, Official Report, column 1132W, on non-domestic rates: empty properties, if he will place in the Library a copy of the data on empty properties provided by each local authority as part of the most recent national non-domestic rates return. (317599)

Valid data at individual local authority level will be available following the issue of the statistical release “Number of hereditaments benefiting from Small Business Rate Relief and the number of empty hereditaments: experimental statistics” that will be published on the Communities and Local Government website at the end of February.