HC Deb 11 June 1992 vol 209 c267W
Mr. Hutton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the average length of time for appeals to be heard against uniform business rates in(a) south Cumbria and (b) the rest of England and Wales.

Mr. Robin Squire

Information is not available centrally on the time taken to deal with non-domestic rating appeals.

Following revaluation on 1 April 1990, tribunals in England initially received some 600,000 appeals, including transitional cases. Most of these were received by tribunals towards the end of that financial year. By the end of March 1992 about 220,000 appeals had been resolved.

Cumbria valuation tribunal initially received about 7,800 appeals and by the end of March 1992 some 4,200 had been resolved.