Council Tax: Appeals

Mrs. Spelman
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, columns 308-9W, on council tax: appeals, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of council tax appeals decided and (b) decisions relating to each such case in (a) 2004-05 and (b) 2005-06.

Barbara Follett
The Valuation Tribunal Service (VTS) does not hold information on the number of council tax appeals decided in 2004-05 or 2005-06. There are no statistical data for those decisions and to provide the data would incur disproportionate cost, but all the individual decisions are available for inspection in the VTS’ offices and many of the decisions appear on their website:

www.valuationtribunal.gov.uk