I would like to obtain the information, from the Council, relating to unclaimed business rate credit balances.

1. I therefore request a breakdown of credit balances accrued since your earliest records, for the amounts owing to all incorporated companies within the authorities billing area with credits, including the following information:
a) The name of each business in respect of which non-domestic rate credit balances remain payable.
b) The value of over payment in each case which remains unclaimed.
c) The years(s) in which over payment was made and the hereditament address.
d) The name of each business in respect of which non-domestic rate credit balances has been written back on to the NDR account.
e) The value of write back in each case which remains unclaimed.
f) The years(s) in which write back was made (if available) and the hereditament address that the write back relates to.

We publish our Business Rates information, and update this on a regular basis. Therefore we are refusing this request under Section 21 and 22 of the Freedom of Information Act. This information can be found on the following page under the Business Rates category and we would ask you to bookmark this page for future reference if you find it of interest; http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/council-and-meetings/open-data/datasets-and-open-data

The public interest test has been considered and as the information is updated periodically, and resource is better utilised elsewhere within the authority, it is not appropriate to create the dataset outside of the usual scheduled slot.