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Darlington
Dartford
Daventry
Doncaster
Dover
Dudley
Durham
East Devon
East Riding
Ellesmere Port
Epping Forest
Exeter
Fareham
Fenland
Gedling
Gosport
Gravesham
Great Yarmouth
Guildford
Halton
Harborough
Harlow
Harrogate
Harrow
Hinckley
Ipswich
Kettering
Kings Lynn
Kingston upon Thames
Lancaster
Lewes
Luton
Macclesfield
Medway Towns
Melton
Merton
Mid Devon
Mid Suffolk
Milton Keynes
Mole Valley
New Forest
Newark
North Cornwall
North Kesteven
North Lincoln
North Norfolk
North Shropshire
North Somerset
North Warwick
Northampton
Norwich
Nuneaton
NW Leicester
Oadby and Wigston
Oswestry
Oxford City
Pendle
Reading
Redditch
Ribble Valley
Richmondshire
Rochford
Rossendale
Rotherham
Rugby
Runnymede
Rutland
Salisbury
Sedgefield
Sefton
Selby
Shepway
South Bedfordshire
South Cambridge
South Derby
South Gloucestershire
South Holland
South Kesteven
South Northants
St. Albans
Stafford
Stoke-on-Trent
Stroud
Swindon
Tamworth
Tandridge
Taunton Deane
Teesdale
Tendring
Three Rivers
Thurrock
Torridge
Uttlesford
Wandsworth
Warwick
Watford
Waveney
Waverley
Wealden
Wear Valley
Wellingborough
Welwyn Hatfield
West Lancashire
Winchester
Woking
Wokingham
Wycombe.
Birmingham
Brighton and Hove
Bristol
Camden
City of London
Greenwich
Hyndburn
Kingston upon Hull
Leicester
Lincoln
Liverpool
Mansfield
Middlesbrough
North Tyneside
Peterborough
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Preston
Redcar and Cleveland
South Norfolk
Southampton
Southwark
Thanet
Wakefield
Wansbeck
Wirral.
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 | |
| 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]
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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