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75W<br />
Written Answers<br />
26 OCTOBER 2009<br />
Written Answers<br />
76W<br />
Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services<br />
Mr. Letwin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer<br />
whether HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) accrued<br />
revenue in the last three months from callers to HMRC<br />
08 telephone numbers being kept on line while waiting<br />
to be answered. [295035]<br />
Mr. Timms: HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC)<br />
centrally managed network of contact centres has received<br />
no revenue in respect of its use of 08 telephone numbers.<br />
HMRC’s contact centre policy is to provide as quick<br />
and efficient service as possible.<br />
Taxation: Holiday Accommodation<br />
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer<br />
what discussions he has had with representatives of the<br />
tourism industry in Wales on the financial effect of the<br />
revised furnished holiday letting rules. [295246]<br />
Mr. Timms: Treasury Ministers and officials hold<br />
discussions with a wide variety of organisations in the<br />
public and private sectors as part of the process of<br />
policy development and delivery. As was the case with<br />
previous Administrations, it is not the Government’s<br />
practice to provide details of all such discussions.<br />
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer<br />
what assessment he has made of the financial effect<br />
which the revised furnished holiday letting rules will<br />
have on persons operating holiday lets in (a) the UK<br />
and (b) Wales. [295247]<br />
Mr. Timms: An impact assessment for the changes to<br />
the Furnished Holiday Lettings rules will be published<br />
at the 2009 pre-Budget report, alongside draft legislation.<br />
Taxation: Scotland<br />
Gordon Banks: To ask the Chancellor of the<br />
Exchequer whether HM Revenue and Customs has<br />
responsibilities for the levy aspects of business<br />
improvement districts in Scotland. [295251]<br />
Mr. Timms: No.<br />
These are the responsibility of the relevant local<br />
authority in conjunction with participating businesses<br />
in the Business Improvement District area.<br />
Valuation Office Agency: East Midlands<br />
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer<br />
pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley<br />
and Chislehurst of 1 June 2009, Official Report, column<br />
194W, on housing: construction, which local authorities<br />
in the East Midlands provided details of (a) building<br />
control commencement lists and (b) building control<br />
completion notices to the Valuation Office Agency in<br />
the last 12 months; and whether the Valuebill/e-BAR<br />
interface was used in each case. [293223]<br />
Ian Pearson: A table showing which local authorities<br />
within the East Midlands region of England have provided<br />
building control commencement lists and building control<br />
completion notices to the Valuation Office Agency in<br />
the last 12months is set out as follows.<br />
The Valuebill/e-BAR interface is not used for the<br />
submission of building control commencement lists or<br />
building control completion notices.<br />
Billing authority<br />
Commencement<br />
notices<br />
Completion<br />
notices<br />
High Peak No No<br />
Derbyshire Dales Yes No<br />
Amber Valley No No<br />
North East and South<br />
No<br />
No<br />
Derbyshire<br />
Chesterfield Yes No<br />
Bolsover No No<br />
Derby Erewash No No<br />
Rushcliffe Yes No<br />
Broxtowe Yes No<br />
Ashfield Yes No<br />
Gedling No No<br />
Newark and Sherwood No No<br />
Mansfield No No<br />
Bassetlaw No No<br />
Nottingham Yes No<br />
Lincoln No No<br />
North Kesteven No No<br />
South Kesteven No No<br />
South Holland No No<br />
Boston No No<br />
East Lindsey No No<br />
West Lindsey No No<br />
Charnwood No No<br />
Melton Yes No<br />
Harborough No No<br />
Oadby and Wigston No No<br />
Blaby No Yes<br />
Hinckley and Bosworth No No<br />
North West Leicestershire No No<br />
Leicester No No<br />
Rutland Yes Yes<br />
South Northampton No No<br />
Northampton No No<br />
Daventry No No<br />
Wellingborough No No<br />
Kettering No No<br />
Corby No No<br />
East Northamptonshire No No<br />
Valuation Office: Housing<br />
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer<br />
pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley<br />
and Chislehurst of 1 June 2009, Official Report, columns<br />
194-96W, on housing: construction, (1) which local<br />
authorities in the North East have provided details of<br />
(a) building control commencement lists and (b) building<br />
control completion notices to the Valuation Office Agency;<br />
and whether the Valuebill/e-BAR interface was used in<br />
each case; [292864]<br />
(2) which local authorities in the North West provide<br />
details of (a) building control commencement lists and<br />
(b) building control completion notices to the<br />
Valuation Office Agency; and whether the Valuebill/e-<br />
BAR interface is used in each case; [293018]