To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Valuation Office Agency staff in offices in (a) the north-east and (b) north Lincolnshire worked on the separate rating of port businesses in each year since 1997. (319448)

The VOA does not keep records of the number of staff involved in the assessment of separate hereditaments within statutory ports going back to 1997. Staff involved in work on the ports undertake general rating work in other locations and work in other business streams.