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<p>We have introduced a £1 billion business rate support package for 2014-15 including:</p><p>
</p><p>– a 2% cap in the Retail Price Index increase in the small business rates multiplier;</p><p>–
a retail discount of £1,000 for around 300,000 shops, pubs and restaurants with rateable
values below £50,000;</p><p>– a 12 month extension of small business rate relief doubling,
benefitting over half a million businesses;</p><p>– a 50 per cent discount for new
occupants of long-term vacant shops, and;</p><p>– allowing ratepayers to pay bills
over 12 instalments.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the Written Ministerial Statement
of 18 September 2012, Official Report, Column 32WS, the Department no longer publishes
statistics by government office region. Additionally, the Department does not collect
data on a constituency basis, but Barnsley East constituency lies entirely within
the Barnsley Metropolitan District. Table 1 shows, where available, the estimated
number of properties that will benefit from each of the reliefs introduced or extended
in 2014-15 in Barnsley Metropolitan District, as well as the amount of relief awarded:</p><p>
</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Table 1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Item</em></p></td><td><p><em>Estimated
number of properties in the Barnsley Metropolitan District that will benefit from
these reliefs </em></p><p><em>(units)</em></p></td><td><p><em>Amount of Relief Awarded</em></p><p>
</p><p> </p><p><em>(£thousands)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2% RPI Cap on Small Business
Rates Multiplier</p></td><td><p>6,597</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12
month extension of small business rate relief doubling, of which:</p></td><td><p>2,650</p></td><td
rowspan="3"><p> </p><p>4,458<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> - 100% relief</em></p></td><td><p>2,026</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>
- Tapering</em></p></td><td><p>624</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long Term Empty Reoccupation
Relief</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retail Rate Relief</p></td><td><p>740</p></td><td><p>738</p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="3"><p>All data is from the 2014-15 NNDR1 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/non-domestic-rates-collected-by-local-councils-in-england-forecast-for-2014-to-2015"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/non-domestic-rates-collected-by-local-councils-in-england-forecast-for-2014-to-2015</a>),
except for retail rate relief data which is available from the following link:</p><p>
</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/353101/Estimated_number_of_properties_that_will_receive__1000_business_rates_relief.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/353101/Estimated_number_of_properties_that_will_receive__1000_business_rates_relief.pdf</a></p><p><sup>1</sup>This
is the total amount of small business rates relief awarded. The breakdown for the
amount awarded to properties receiving 100% and tapering relief is not available.</p><p>N/A
– data not available.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p>
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