Valuation Office Agency Mrs. Spelman To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) hotels, (b) bed and breakfasts and (c) hostels are on Valuation Office Agency’s ratings list in each local authority in Wales in the most recent year for which figures are available. Mr. Hain I have been asked to reply. The number of properties described as (a) hotels (b) bed and breakfasts and (c) hostels, in the 2005 Rating List for Wales, for each local authority area, at April 2006, is shown in the following table. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Local authority |Hotels|Hostels|Guest and boarding houses (B and B)| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Anglesey |22 |13 |23 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Blaenau Gwent |? |3 |4 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bridgend |16 |3 |17 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Caerphilly |3 |5 |4 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cardiff |50 |10 |26 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Carmarthenshire |19 |12 |71 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ceredigion |28 |13 |86 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Conwy |147 |51 |170 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Denbighshire |36 |10 |35 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Flintshire |17 |6 |6 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Gwynedd |90 |124 |96 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Merthyr Tydfil |6 |1 |1 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Monmouthshire |22 |3 |9 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Neath Port Talbot |8 |4 |8 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Newport |25 |3 |13 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Pembrokeshire |87 |18 |179 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Powys |55 |41 |52 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rhondda Cynon Taff|8 |5 |3 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Swansea |24 |16 |50 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Torfaen |2 |? |2 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Vale of Glamorgan |16 |3 |9 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wrexham |18 |5 |4 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------