Outstanding national non-domestic rates bill for 2012
The Foreign Secretary has updated Parliament on Diplomatic Missions and International Organisations with an outstanding National Non-Domestic Rates bill in 2012.
The Foreign Secretary William Hague said:
The majority of diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom pay the National Non-Domestic Rates (NNDR) requested from them. Diplomatic missions are obliged to pay only 6% of the total NNDR value of their offices. This represents payment for specific services such as street cleaning and street lighting.
Representations by Protocol Directorate to missions in 2013 led to the settlement of outstanding debts by Kuwait, Namibia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Slovak Republic, Zambia and Zimbabwe - amongst others.
As at 14 June 2013, the total amount of outstanding NNDR payments as advised by the Valuation Office Agency is 拢674,110, an increase of almost 20% from the 2011 figure (拢566,009). 拢45,219 of this outstanding debt is owed by Iran and Syria which are not currently represented in the UK. We are therefore unable to pursue these debts. Six missions are responsible for almost two thirds of the remainder. We shall continue to urge those with NNDR debt to pay their dues.
Missions listed below owed over 拢10,000 in respect of NNDR.
| Embassy of the Republic of C么te d鈥橧voire | 拢97,987 |
| Embassy of the People鈥檚 Republic of China | 拢94,377 |
| High Commission for the People鈥檚 Republic of Bangladesh | 拢91,496 |
| Sierra Leone High Commission | 拢55,060 |
| High Commission for the Republic of Cameroon | 拢46,538 |
| Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan | 拢36,566 |
| Embassy of Ukraine | 拢22,941 |
| Embassy of the Republic of Liberia | 拢20,433 |
| Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania | 拢18,985 |
| Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe | 拢14,314 |
| International Organisation for Migration | 拢14,305 |
| High Commission of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka | 拢13,189 |
| Embassy of the Republic of Albania | 拢12,799 |
| Embassy of Italy | 拢12,299 |
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