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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department received in business rates for each local authority area in 2015-16; and what estimate his Department has made of the amount which each local authority in England will retain from the business rate levy in each of the next five years.

Data on each authority's contribution to the central share in 2015-16 are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-non-domestic-rates-collected-by-councils-in-england-2015-to-2016