Asked by: Ben Bradley (Conservative - Mansfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an estimate of the number of businesses which have benefited from small business rate relief in (a) Mansfield, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the East Midlands in each of the last five years.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
The number of properties, which the VOA terms 'hereditaments' in the Mansfield District Council area who have benefitted from small business rate relief as at the 31 December in each of the last 5 years can be found at the following links. The data are as reported by the local authority on their NNDR1 return. Comparisons between 2015 and 2016 should not be made as the qualifying thresholds for the relief changed.
31 December 2017: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684809/1819_NNDR1_Supplementary_table_web.xlsx
31 December 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/625980/1718_NNDR1_Supplementary_table.xlsx
31 December 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/574277/NNDR1_Supplementary_tables_web.xlsx
31 December 2014: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/418000/Final_Published_Supplementary_tables_1516_v2.xlsx
31 December 2013: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/381055/Supplementary_tables_1415.xlsx
Figures are not published for Nottinghamshire and East Midlands, but data for authorities in these areas are published in these supplementary tables.