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Positive Subsidy


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Minimum Wage

Jon Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many London-based staff are employed by her Department on the national minimum wage. [175974]

Mr. Dhanda: All of the staff employed by the Department are paid more than the national minimum wage.

Motor Vehicles: Arson

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many deliberate road vehicle fires occurred in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available in Wales and each Government office region in England. [176179]

Mr. Dhanda: The information requested is in the following table, showing both the most recent financial year (2005-06) and the most recent calendar year (2006).

Deliberate road vehicle fires, England and Wales, England, and Government office regions, 1996-97, 2005-06 and 2006
1996-97 2005-06 2006

England and Wales

39,315

42,068

37,838

England

36,454

38,935

34,893

Government office regions

East

2,544

3,123

2,805

East Midlands

2,988

3,413

3,165

London

3,056

3,179

2,879

North East

3,131

2,707

2,515

North West

7,489

7,704

6,826

South East

4,119

4,879

4,344

South West

2,362

3,172

2,917

West Midlands

4,904

4,281

3,687

Yorkshire and Humberside

5,864

6,477

5,756

Note: Data for 2006 are provisional.

Non-Domestic Rates

Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what changes she proposes to make to the (a) precepting, (b) collection and (c) distribution of non-domestic business rates following the Lyons Report. [178466]


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John Healey: The Lyons report did not recommend substantial changes and there are no plans to alter the current precepting, collection and distribution national non domestic rates regime. However, following the Lyons Report the White Paper “Business Rate Supplements”, published in October 2007, set out the Government's plan to introduce powers for local authorities to levy a supplement on business rates.

Non-Domestic Rates: Tax Allowances

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will publish her Department's review of business rate reliefs and exemptions. [176254]

John Healey: Business rates reliefs and exemptions were reviewed as part of the ongoing maintenance of running the business rates system by Communities and Local Government. No document was drawn together for publication.


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