Written question asked by Jonathan Lord (Conservative) on Tuesday, 18 September 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 15 October 2012. It was answered by Brandon Lewis (Conservative) on Monday, 15 October 2012 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Non-domestic Rates: Surrey

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many businesses qualify for small business rate relief in (a) Woking constituency and (b) Surrey.

[122008]

Answer

The number of hereditaments in receipt of small business rate relief as at 31 December 2010, the latest date for which data are available, in Surrey and Woking local authority areas are shown in the following table. Data on the number of businesses who qualify for small business rate relief are not centrally collected. The data are also not available at constituency level.

	Number of businesses in receipt of small business rate relief as at 31 December 2010
Surrey	6,903
Of which:
Woking	432

The data are taken from the National Non-Domestic Rates 1 (NNDRl) Supplementary forms completed annually by billing authorities in England and returned to the Department of Communities and Local Government. The data are publicly available in tables in the Statistics section of the DCLG website:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/nondomesticrates201112f

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 122008; 551 c221W
Session: 2012-13
Subjects: Business rates Surrey
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Non-domestic Rates: Surrey

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