AQW 36234/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 19/09/2014
Answered On Date: 01/10/2014
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel to detail the number of small businesses which have qualified for the Small Business Rate Relief Scheme in East Londonderry, in each of the last four years.

Answer:

Information on the number of small businesses that have qualified for the Small Business Rate Relief scheme in the East Londonderry Constituency is not available. However, since the scheme began in April 2010 the number of non-domestic properties that have benefitted in the Coleraine, Derry and Limavady District Council areas in each of the last four years is provided in the table below.

	Number of Non-Domestic Properties that Benefitted from SBRR each year
	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15*
Coleraine	688	947	980	996
Derry	853	1,320	1,386	1,372
Limavady	316	448	427	425

*2014/15 figures as at 31st August 2014