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Large properties
	North East	North West	North Yorkshire and the Humber West	East Midlands	West Midlands	East of England	London	South East	South West
Less than -50%	(1)-	100	(1)-	(1)-	100	100	100	100	(1)-
Between -50% (including) and -40% (excluding)	100	200	100	200	200	200	200	300	100
Between -40% (incl.) and -30% (excl.)	100	600	300	1,100	500	800	700	1,100	400
Between -30% (incl.) and -20% (excl.)	600	2,200	1,200	4,600	3,100	3,200	2,400	7,100	1,400
Between -20% (incl.) and -15% (excl.)	2,800	9,500	7,500	9,700	9,400	6,300	5,900	15,500	3,200
Between -15% (incl.) and -10% (excl.)	2,500	7,700	5,300	3,500	8,300	6,600	5,800	10,000	3,700
Between -10% (incl.) and -5% (excl.)	2,500	8,500	5,500	2,600	6,400	6,900	8,100	9,600	4,600
Between -5% (incl.) and -0% (excl.)	2,100	6,900	4,500	2,300	4,900	6,000	9,200	7,400	5,100
No change (0%)(2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	9,300	0	0
Between 0% (excl.) and 5% (incl.)	1,700	5,700	4,000	1,900	3,300	4,800	7,000	5,800	5,300
Between 5% (excl.) and 10% (incl.)	1,100	3,800	3,000	1,300	2,200	3,700	5,300	4,600	4,300
Between 10% (excl.) and 15% (incl.)	900	2,800	2,200	900	1,400	2,800	4,300	3,400	3,600
Between 15% (excl.) and 20% (incl.)	600	2,000	1,700	600	1,000	2,000	6,900	2,600	2,700
Between 20% (excl.) and 30% (incl.)	900	2,700	2,100	700	1,300	2,500	5,200	3,200	3,500
Between 30% (excl.) and 40% (incl.)	400	1,500	1,000	400	600	1,500	4,000	1,900	1,800
Between 40% (excl.) and 50% (incl.)	200	800	600	300	400	800	10,100	1,100	1,200
Between 50% (excl.) and 100% (incl.)	400	1,400	900	600	600	1,400	1,100	2,100	1,800
Between 100% (excl.) and 200% (incl.)	200	500	300	300	300	400	200	600	500
More than 200% (excl.)	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	200	200
(1 )Negligible (less than 50). (2) 344 properties see no change in their business rates bill. All these properties have zero Rateable Value before and after the revaluation. Note: Figures rounded to the nearest hundred.

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library a copy of the data on rateable values used as the basis of the statement on page 10 of his Department's consultation paper on transitional arrangements for the non-domestic rating revaluation 2010 in England that the 2010 revaluation will result in more ratepayers seeing reductions in bills (60 per cent. of ratepayers) than increases (40 per cent. of ratepayers). [289907]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Before inflation, the 2010 business rates revaluation will reduce the rates bill for 1,028,500 properties and increase the rates bill for 677,800 properties.
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After rounding, this represents 60 per cent. and 40 per cent. of properties, respectively. These figures are based on the same ratings list as used for the consultation document Transitional Arrangements for the Non-Domestic Rating Revaluation 2010 in England" published on 8 July 2009. The ratings list is a live database and is continually being updated (to reflect appeals, deletions, additions, physical alterations, splits and mergers).

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate his Department has made of the total amount of business rates to be paid in respect of (a) properties and (b) large properties in each region in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15. [289908]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Details of the amount of National Non-Domestic Rates local authorities expect to collect in 2009-10 were published on 28 May in a Statistical Release that is available on the Communities and Local Government website at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/nondomesticrates200910f

Data are collected at local authority level but not by the size of the property. Data for other years are not available.

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) if he will place in the Library a copy of the data on rateable values used as the basis of the statement on page 12 of his Department's consultation paper on the transitional arrangements for the non-domestic rating revaluation 2010 in England that when transitional relief on the 2005 rating list ended on 1 April 2009 many businesses still faced large increases to their full bill; [289909]

(2) what estimate his Department has made of the number of 100,000 former recipients of transitional relief receiving significantly higher 2009-10 rates bills, referred to in his Department's Explanatory Memorandum to the Non-Domestic Rating (Deferred Payments) (England) Regulations 2009, which were (a) small and (b) large properties in each region; and what the average percentage increase was in bills in respect of those properties in 2009-10. [289914]

Barbara Follett: The statement on page 12 of the consultation paper "Transitional Arrangements for the Non-Domestic Rating Revaluation 2010 in England" was based on information contained in the August 2004 consultation paper "NNDR Transitional Arrangements: Consultation" which stated that 3,750 large properties and 90,000 small properties would benefit from transitional relief in the fourth year of the scheme. No estimates are available for the regional split.

The earlier consultation paper can be found in the following link:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/430100.pdf

The amount of transitional relief awarded in 2008-09 was £99 million. We do not collect data on the number of properties that received that relief.

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Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the overall percentage change in the rateable value of (a) small and (b) large properties will be in each region under the 2010 rates revaluation. [289910]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The table shows the overall percentage change in the rateable value of small and large properties in each region under the 2010 revaluation.

A small property is defined as having a rateable value less than £18,000, or £25,500 in London. This is the definition proposed in the 2010 Transitional Relief consultation document published on 8 July 2009.

The analysis uses data from the Local List only; properties on the Central List are excluded.

	Percentage change in rateable value
Government Office Region	Small properties	Large properties
North East	13.9	19.4
North West	15.8	16.9
Yorkshire and the Humber	14.7	18.6
East Midlands	2.1	8.3
West Midlands	11.1	11.6
East of England	16.3	16.0
London	23.7	32.2
South East	11.8	13.5
South West	23.4	22.8
England (Local List only)	15.8	20.0

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