Non-domestic Rates: Third Sector

Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 22 March 2011.

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Photo of Louise Mensch Louise Mensch Conservative, Corby

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) charities and (b) community amateur sports clubs received discretionary rate relief on national non-domestic rates in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and what the cost to local authorities of such relief was in each such year.

Photo of Bob Neill Bob Neill The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Details of the number of hereditaments that were in receipt of either discretionary charity or discretionary community and amateur sports clubs rate relief on their national non-domestic rates as at 31 December 2007-09 are shown in the following table. It is not possible to determine how many individual charities or clubs were in receipt of the reliefs.

As at 31 December each year
2007 2008 2009
Charity relief 30,000 30,900 32,100
Community and amateur sports club relief 1,000 1,200 1,300

These figures are also available in table 5 of the statistical release "National non-domestic rates collected by local authorities in England 2009-10 (Revised)" that was published on 25 January 2011 and which is available on the Department for Communities and Local Government website at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/localregional/localgovernmentfinance/statistics/nondomesticrates/outturn/

Discretionary relief is part funded by the national non-domestic rates pool and part by the local authority itself. For both charity relief and community and amateur sports clubs relief, the central pool funds 25% of any discretionary relief granted and the local authority funds the remaining 75% of the relief. The following table shows the amount of discretionary relief local authorities reported the pool contributed towards i.e. this figure is 25% of the total amount of discretionary relief granted. We do not collect information on the amount of discretionary relief funded by local authorities.

£
2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
Charity relief
Contribution from the pool reported on NNDR forms 8,775,000 9,065,000 10,141,000
Estimated contribution by local authority 26,325,000 27,195,000 30,423,000
Community and amateur sports club relief
Contribution from the pool reported on NNDR forms 169,000 230,000 247,000
Estimated contribution by local authority 507,000 690,000 741,000

These figures are as reported by local authorities on their annual national non-domestic rate (NNDR) returns and can relate both to the year in question and previous years.

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