Dear Monmouthshire Council,

In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, could you please provide me with a complete and up-to-date list of all business (non-residential) property rates data for Monmouthshire Local Authority, and including the following fields:

- Billing Authority Code
- Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant)
- Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town)
- Occupied / Vacant
- Date of Occupation / Vacancy
- Actual annual rates charged (in Pounds)

I appreciate that properties owned / rented by individuals are personal information and such personal data (i.e. the Firm's Trading Name) would be excluded from our request in terms of Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In such cases, please provide the remaining information with the Firm's Trading Name either blank or listed as 'individual'.

Please provide this as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government Licence. I will be matching the billing authority code to the Valuations Office master list, so please ensure that the code is correctly formatted.

I am compiling a comprehensive time-series database of business activity across the UK and will require the dataset updated on a quarterly basis. Some 20% of local authorities already provide this dataset (and a total of 30% of local authorities provide a subset of these data) on a monthly to quarterly basis on a dedicated page on their websites or on an open data service. I would appreciate it if you could do the same.

Thank you and kind regards

Gavin Chait

Dear Mike,

Thank you very much for the data.

I would like to request clarity on the data received. In the sheet labeled 'All_exempts_for_publication', there are about 260 properties listed out of a total list of 3,150. Of these, only 21 are marked as empty or void. That's less than 1% and far out of alignment with other authorities.

Is that the complete list, or is there a list of reliefs or exemptions that hasn't been included?

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait

Dear Mike Trigg,

I'm following up on my request for clarity of 1 March 2016 following my FOI request.

In the sheet labeled 'All_exempts_for_publication', there are about 260 properties listed out of a total list of 3,150. Of these, only 21 are marked as empty or void. That's less than 1% and far out of alignment with other authorities.

Is that the complete list, or is there a list of reliefs or exemptions that hasn't been included?

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait

Dear Mike Trigg,

I'm following up on my request for clarity of 5 April following my FOI request.

In the sheet labeled 'All_exempts_for_publication', there are about 260 properties listed out of a total list of 3,150. Of these, only 21 are marked as empty or void. That's less than 1% and far out of alignment with other authorities.

Is that the complete list, or is there a list of reliefs or exemptions that hasn't been included?

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait