Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,

In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, and subject to section 40(2) on personal data, could you please provide me with your local authority’s complete and most-recently updated list of all business (non-residential) property rates data, including the following fields:

- Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the public VOA database reference)
- Liable Party Name (i.e. property occupant or ratepayer)
- Liability Start Date (i.e. date liable party became liable)
- Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town)
- Occupation / Vacancy status
- Date of Occupation / Vacancy

If you are unable to provide any of the fields requested in part or in their entirety, please provide the remainder of the information requested.

Please provide this data as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government Licence (reuse for any and all purposes, including commercial).

You last published this data on your website in March 2024, and this is a request for your latest updated dataset.

Yours faithfully,

J. Talbot