Speeches

Stephen Doughty – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Doughty on 2016-04-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many schemes have benefited from the Business Premises Renovation Allowance in each of the last five years; and what the average value of such benefit was.

Mr David Gauke

The table below shows the number of Business Premises Renovation Allowance claims by year and the average cost in tax relief per claim for the last five years for which data is available. Some businesses may have made more than one BPRA claim for a single project and some claims may involve more than one project.

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

Number of claims

2,050

1,450

1,550

1,400

1,400

Average cost per claim

£14,200

£20,500

£63,000

£27,800

£19,300