Non-domestic Rates: Religious Buildings

Mr. Stewart Jackson
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and  Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 3 June 2009, Official Report, column 591W, on non-domestic rates: religious buildings, in respect of which faith communities or religions the Registrar General has certified premises as places of religious worship.

Meg Hillier
I have been asked to reply.

The Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 provides for places of meeting for religious worship to be certified to the Registrar General. Under this Act the Registrar General records all places of meeting for religious worship certified to him. There are approximately 30,000 places of meeting for religious worship certified under the Act. The denominations are recorded as follows:

Roman Catholic

Methodist

Congregationalist

Baptist

United Reformed

Calvinistic Methodist

Brethren

Salvation Army

Unitarian

Society of Friends

Jehovah's Witness

Other Christian bodies

Jews

Muslim

Sikh

Hindus

Undenominational

Buddhists of the New Kadampa Traditional

Baha'is

Subud Britain

Valmiks

Followers of Guru Das

Nirankaries

Ravidasia

Aetherius society

Devotees of Krishna

Friends of Western Buddhist order

Antiochian Orthodox

Congregation of Yahweh

Das Dharam

Gujarati

Shree Swaminarayan Siddhant Sajivan Mandal

Shri guru Ravidasia community

Theosophists

Ukraine Autocephalic

Universal Order of Thios

Unsectarian

Who object to be designated by any distinctive appellation

Zen Buddhists

Buddhists

Zoroastrians

Brahma kumaris

Jains

Universal Confluence of Yoga and Vedanta Luminar

Manjushri

Nirankaries

Raman

Ramgarhia

Radhan Soami Sagsang Beas-British Isles

Sant Mat

Sathya Sai Baha Devotees

Sufis

Sukyo Mahikari

Swaminarayans

Zen

Anoopam

Kshatryna Sabna London Bhagat Namdev Mission

Maktar Tarighat Ovesyi Shamagh Soudi

Navnat Vanit

Anjuman-e-Mohibban-e-Ahlalbait

Antiochian Orthodox Church

Byelorussion Autocephalic Orthodox

Disciples of Baba Gobind Daa Ji

Eikoko Iesu No Mitama Kyokai

Ekniwas