Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the level of (a) council tax arrears and (b) non-domestic rate arrears was on 31 March 2016 in (i) Purbeck District Council, (ii) North Dorset District Council, (iii) West Dorset District Council and (iv) Weymouth and Portland Borough Council.

The requested figures are in the table ‘Quarterly return of Council Tax and non-domestic rates QRC4, 2015 to 2016’ at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2015-to-2016. Please note that this is only the second time we have collected non-domestic rate arrears data so they must be regarded as experimental data and could be revised in subsequent data collections.