Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of business rates relief approved by local authorities in England since 2015.

Data on the cost of reliefs given and forecast to be given can be found in Table 2 (attached) of the ‘National non-domestic rates to be collected by local authorities in England 2019-20’ statistical release, which can be found at this link https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/778324/NNDR1_2019-20_Stats_release.pdf