Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

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.

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.