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Summary
Here is a summary of the topics that were included in the report pack for discussion at the Rating Advisory Panel meeting. The meeting was convened to discuss changes to the panel membership, declarations of interest, and applications for NNDR discretionary and hardship relief. A significant portion of the meeting was scheduled to be held in private due to the discussion of commercially sensitive information.
NNDR Discretionary and Hardship Relief Applications
The panel was scheduled to discuss Non-Domestic Rates (NNDR) Discretionary and Hardship Relief applications1. The report pack included hundreds of pages of information relating to these applications.
Exempt Reports
The report pack recommends that the public and press be excluded from a portion of the meeting. This recommendation was made under Section 100 (A) (4) and Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 19722. The reason given is that the items of business involve the likely disclosure of exempt information. It was considered that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
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NNDR, also known as business rates, are a tax on non-domestic properties. Discretionary relief is a reduction in business rates that a local authority can choose to grant to certain businesses or organisations. Hardship relief is a type of discretionary relief granted to businesses facing financial difficulty. ↩
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Section 100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 allows a local authority to exclude the public from a meeting if publicity would be prejudicial to the public interest by reason of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted or for other special reasons stated in the resolution. Part 1 of Schedule 12A defines the categories of information that are exempt. ↩
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