AQW 52305/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 11/12/2015
Answered On Date: 07/01/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel whether she intends to introduce rates relief for businesses that were affected by recent flooding.

Answer:

Where business ratepayers are struggling to make payments as a consequence of recent flooding, LPS will look at this sympathetically. Anyone in this position is eligible to apply to LPS for hardship rate relief and this will be assessed on the information provided. This is not a general compensation scheme, however individual business ratepayers who are badly affected and are able to demonstrate financial hardship (in accordance with the scheme criteria) can be granted some easement in relation to payments.

A factsheet and application form can be found at:

https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/hardship-relief