November FOI Request
Dear Bromley Borough Council,
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000.
In accordance with the provisions specified within the above Act I hereby request the following information.
All information requested relates to Business Rates.
This request for information falls within the parameters of the Act but if you require clarification on any of the points above or should you wish to discuss this further then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Required Information;- A list of all live business rates accounts with a 2017 list Rateable Value.
• Property Reference Number (also known as Billing Authority Reference Number) of the property on which the charge is made. Please note that this is not the Rate Demand or Rate Account Number.
• Current rateable value
• Account holder name
• Property address
• The billing address (where different to the property address), the contact telephone number and email address
• The date the current ratepayer became liable for the business rates – we do not require any historical account liability dates only the current ratepayers liability start date
• whether a property is empty or occupied
• Where a property is currently empty please provide the date the ratepayer became liable for empty rates
• Where there is an exemption on the account please provide the start and end date and type of exemption applied (e.g. listed building)
• Where there is a relief on the account please provide the date it was applied and the type of relief (e.g. Retail Discount)
• We do not require any personal information or sole traders.
Please provide the information in an electronic, spreadsheet format ideally excel. The Act requires that a response be provided within a period of 20 working days from the date hereof.
Yours faithfully,
Richard Roberts
Dear Mr Roberts,
FOI 22018
Thank you for your request for information which I received on 16th November 2020. Your request is now receiving attention and depending on any necessary clarifications you should hear from the Council within 20 working days.
Please note: Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic there may be a delay in collating your response. The Council are committed to sending you a response as soon as possible.
Kind Regards
Mrs Preston
Contract Monitoring Officer
Chief Executive’s Department
Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley BR1 3UH
www.bromley.gov.uk
Dear Mr Roberts,
FOI 22018
Further to your recent FOI enquiry, please find attached the requested information.
We trust this completes your FOI enquiry which has now been closed.
Thank you for your enquiry.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Preston
Contract Monitoring Officer
Chief Executive’s Department
Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley BR1 3UH
www.bromley.gov.uk
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Please note:
Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Sec (1)(a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at Sec (1)(b) is to disclose information which is permitted to the public domain and that has been confirmed as being held. Where exemptions are relied upon s17 of FOIA requires that we provide the requester with a notice which: a) states fact b) specifies exemption(s) in question and c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why exemption applies.
Section 12 (1) of the Freedom of the Freedom of Information Act states that a public authority is not obliged to:…. “comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate time limit of 18 hours of an officers time to manually review records, retrieve and collate the data which we are not obliged to do under the act if to do so would exceed the 18 hour time limit.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your FOI request, you have the right to ask for us to conduct an internal review.
If you are not content with the outcome of our internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted on 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545 745.
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Dear Business Rates,
Thank you for sending across the Data. Unfortunately the data does not include the BA Ref Number. could you please include and resend?
Yours sincerely,
Richard roberts
Thank you for your Business Rates query of which we confirm receipt.
Your query has been forwarded to a Customer Service Officer and will be
worked on within the next 10 working days.
Please do not reply to this message as the mailbox is not monitored
Dear Mr Roberts,
FOI 22018
Further to your recent email please find attached the requested data which
now includes the property reference number.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Preston
Contract Monitoring Officer
Chief Executive’s Department
Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley BR1 3UH
[1]www.bromley.gov.uk
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Please note:
Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties
on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Sec
(1)(a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a
request is held. The second duty at Sec (1)(b) is to disclose information
which is permitted to the public domain and that has been confirmed as
being held. Where exemptions are relied upon s17 of FOIA requires that we
provide the requester with a notice which: a) states fact b) specifies
exemption(s) in question and c) states (if that would not otherwise be
apparent) why exemption applies.
Section 12 (1) of the Freedom of the Freedom of Information Act states
that a public authority is not obliged to:…. “comply with a request for
information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the
request would exceed the appropriate time limit of 18 hours of an officers
time to manually review records, retrieve and collate the data which we
are not obliged to do under the act if to do so would exceed the 18 hour
time limit.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your FOI request, you have
the right to ask for us to conduct an internal review.
If you are not content with the outcome of our internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted on 0303 123 1113
or 01625 545 745.
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From: Richard roberts
[[2]mailto:[FOI #706220 email]]
Sent: 20 November 2020 15:09
To: Business Rates <[3][email address]>
Subject: Re: FOI 22018
Dear Business Rates,
Thank you for sending across the Data. Unfortunately the data does not
include the BA Ref Number. could you please include and resend?
Yours sincerely,
Richard roberts
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