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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many businesses in Redcar and Cleveland have taken part in the retail relief scheme in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 to date.

Information on business rates and reliefs collected by each local authority are published in the ‘National non-domestic rates collected by councils in England’ statistical series, which are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-non-domestic-rates-collected-by-councils