Paragraph 1 Application and interpretationF1

Subject to F2sub-paragraphs (2) and (2A), this Schedule applies to the billing authorities listed in column 1 of the table set out below in relation to a relevant year beginning on or after 1st April 2016.

This Schedule does not apply to a billing authority listed in Part 4 of Schedule 5 for a relevant year beginning on or after 1st April 2017.

This Schedule does not apply in relation to a relevant year beginning on or after 1st April 2021.

In this Schedule—

• “allowance for non-collection” means an allowance made by a billing authority in its principal financial statements for a relevant year, in accordance with proper practices, to recognise amounts of non-domestic rates which the billing authority estimates will not be collected;

• “growth baseline amount”, in relation to a billing authority, means the figure specified in column 2 of the table set out below in relation to that authority;

• “relevant provision” means a provision made by a billing authority in its principal financial statements for a relevant year which, in accordance with proper practices, reflects amounts to be credited to ratepayers following changes to a ratepayers’ liability for non-domestic rates;

• “transitional protection payment” means a payment under regulations under paragraph 33(1) of Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act.

  Billing authority Column 1	Growth baseline amount Column 2 (£)
  Tees Valley
  Darlington	33,215,036
  Hartlepool	33,929,304
  Middlesbrough	42,103,787
  Stockton-on-Tees	87,063,006
  Redcar and Cleveland	39,347,040
  West Midlands
  Birmingham	429,198,815
  Coventry	123,425,084
  Dudley	97,918,262
  Sandwell	101,733,562
  Solihull	123,660,405
  Walsall	65,738,850
  Wolverhampton	76,731,439