2010 No. 2952

Rating And Valuation, England

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 19881, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 31st December 2010.

Amendments to the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 19922

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 19922 are amended as follows in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2011.

Rules for the calculation of non-domestic rating contributions3

In Schedule 1—

a

for paragraph 1(4), substitute—

4

A special authority’s non-domestic rating contribution for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2011 shall be the amount calculated under sub-paragraph (2) less £10,200,000.

b

in paragraph 4(4)—

i

for “2010”, substitute “2011”; and

ii

for “£84,442,000”, substitute “£84,000,000”; and

c

for Part II, substitute—

PART IICost Factors

Name or description of authority

Cost factor

The councils of the districts of Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland

1.0035

The councils of the metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield

1.0042

The councils of the metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral

1.0066

The councils of the districts of Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, Nottingham and Rushcliffe

1.0088

The councils of the districts of Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset, North Dorset, Poole, Purbeck, West Dorset and Weymouth and Portland

1.0096

The councils of the districts of Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Medway, Shepway, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling and Tunbridge Wells

1.0097

The councils of the metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton

1.0114

The councils of the districts of Braintree, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford, Southend-on-Sea, Tendring and Uttlesford

1.0115

The councils of the districts of Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire and Wellingborough

1.013

The councils of the districts of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington

1.0162

The councils of the districts of Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud and Tewkesbury

1.017

The councils of the districts of North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick

1.0187

The councils of the metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan

1.0189

The council of the district of Swindon

1.0234

The council of the County of Wiltshire

1.0234

The councils of the districts of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, North Hertfordshire and Stevenage

1.0325

The councils of the districts of Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough and South Cambridgeshire

1.0351

The councils of the districts of Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset

1.0376

The councils of the districts of Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Portsmouth, Rushmoor, Southampton, Test Valley and Winchester

1.038

The councils of the districts of Cherwell, Oxford, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse and West Oxfordshire

1.0493

The councils of the districts of Basildon, Brentwood, Dartford, Epping Forest, Harlow, Sevenoaks and Thurrock

1.0775

The councils of the districts of Aylesbury Vale, Milton Keynes and Wycombe

1.0784

The councils of the districts of Broxbourne, Chiltern, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, South Bucks, St Albans, Three Rivers, Watford and Welwyn Hatfield

1.0788

The councils of the districts of Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham

1.0816

The councils of the districts of Bracknell Forest, Crawley, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Slough, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Windsor and Maidenhead and Woking

1.1087

The council of a district other than a district named, or falling within a description given, above

1

The councils of the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Enfield, Haringey, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest

1.0742

The councils of the boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames and Sutton

1.1116

The councils of the boroughs of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster

1.2259

The Common Council of the City of London

1.3932

The Council of the Isles of Scilly

1.5

The Isle of Wight Council

1.038

The councils of the counties of Cornwall, County Durham, Northumberland and Shropshire

1

Assumptions relating to provisional amounts4

In Schedule 2—

a

in paragraph 2(10)—

i

for “that day”, substitute “1st April of the year”; and

ii

for “that year”, substitute “the immediately preceding year”.

b

in paragraph 2(12), for “0.986”, substitute “0.948”; and

c

for the table in paragraph 8(1), substitute—

Name or description of authority

Percentage

The council of a metropolitan district

1.3

The council of a non-metropolitan district which has the functions of a county council, the council of a county which has the functions of a district council and the Council of the Isles of Scilly

1.1

The council of a non-metropolitan district which does not have the functions of a county council

0.7

The council of an inner London borough and the Common Council of the City of London

1.2

The council of an outer London borough

1.3

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Bob NeillParliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment for Communities and Local Government
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”), billing authorities are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to an account held by the Secretary of State (“the national non-domestic rating pool”). The national non-domestic rating pool is subsequently distributed to authorities under the rules in Part III of Schedule 8 to the 1988 Act. Payments into the national non-domestic rating pool in respect of the provisional amount of the non-domestic rating contributions are made during the financial year. Final calculations and adjustments of those contributions are made after the year ends.

These Regulations amend the rules contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”) for the calculation of non-domestic rating contributions and the assumptions to be made in calculating the provisional amount of the non-domestic rating contributions for the financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2011. They are concerned with—

a

the offset for a special authority (the definition of “special authority” is given in section 144(6) of the 1988 Act) in paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations (regulation 3(a));

b

the national cost of collection figure and the area cost factors (which relate to the cost of collection of billing authorities) in paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 1 (regulations 3 (b) and (c));

c

the assumption relating to empty property relief (which is one of the assumptions billing authorities use in calculating the provisional amount) in paragraph 2(10) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations (regulation 4(a));

d

the buoyancy factor (which is one of the assumptions billing authorities use in calculating the provisional amount) in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 (regulation 4(b)); and

e

the losses in collection percentages in paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 (regulation 4(c)).