Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 10 May 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was paid into his Department's scheme to enable port companies to pay off retrospective rate demands over eight years; and for what purposes the money paid into the scheme has been spent.
Local authorities reported that in England in 2009-10 there was a net reduction in non-domestic rate yield of £8 million relating to schedule of payment agreements.
This was calculated from the amount of relief granted by the signing of schedule of payment agreements in 2009-10 (£15 million) less the amount of money collected by local authorities in 2009-10 in respect of schedule of payment agreements (£7 million) entered into up to
All non-domestic rates revenues, collected by billing authorities, are passed to the central non-domestic rates pool and are redistributed to local authorities under the Formula Grant scheme.
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