FOI request (FOI222201)

Business Rates Pub Relief

Requested Fri 01 September 2017
Responded Fri 01 September 2017

I would like to submit an FOI request regarding the Business Rates Relief for pubs announced in the March 2017 Budget, of £1000 for pubs with a rateable value under £100,000. 

https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief/pubs 

Regarding the Scheme, I would like to know:

(a) Whether your council has already begun distributing to local pubs the funding made available for 2017-18 as part of the Scheme?  

 

(b) If the answer to (a) is yes, how much (in £s) has already been allocated to local pubs?

 

(c) If the answer to (a) is yes, what are the names of the pubs that have received relief? 

 

(d) If the answer to (a) is no, why not? 

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Response

(a) - Yes
(b) - £28,225.62
(c) - see below list:

The First In Last Out
Moda
The Cinque Port Arms
The North Star Inn
The Royal Albert
The Tower Hotel
Brass Monkey
The Railway Hotel
The Anchor Inn
The Bo-Peep
The Jenny Lind
The St Leonard
The Carlisle
The Duke of Wellington
The Dolphin Inn
The Crown Inn
The Plough Inn
The Nags Head
The Harrow Inn
Paddy McGinty’s
The London Trader
The Lord Nelson
French’s
The Stag Inn
The Royal Hotel
The Fountain Inn
The Bull Inn
The Duke
The Pump House

(d) - not applicable