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Non-Domestic Rates: Tax Allowances

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many applications for exemption from business rates have been submitted to the Valuation Office Agency in each of the last five years. (220801)

The numbers of proposals received by the Valuation Office Agency over the last five years, seeking removal from the non-domestic lists, including those where it is claimed the property is now wholly domestic is:

England and Wales

2003-04

1,397

2004-05

1,338

2005-06

931

2006-07

654

2007-08

731

Total

5,051