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1659240

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date	07/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Nurseries: Business Rates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the average business rates charged to nurseries in England, and (2) the cost of exempting early years providers from business rates.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Ladyton
uin	HL9975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2023 answer text <p>The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is responsible for valuing non-domestic property for business rates purposes. Based on VOA data from April 2023, the mean rateable value (RV) for a day nursery or play school in England is £26,400. This indicates that, before applying any relevant reliefs, an average nursery in England would pay around £13,175 in business rates for 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>The sector has a total RV of around £320 million and represents nearly half a percent of England’s RV. The Government keeps the tax system under review.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Statement 2022, the Government announced a freeze to the business rates multiplier. This third consecutive freeze supports all ratepayers, including Early Years businesses, and means bills are 6% lower than without the freeze.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 14/09/2023 16:21:04 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	620 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Ladyton

1567232

registered interest
date	16/01/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Nurseries: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a nursery rates relief scheme.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	124069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2023 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2022, the Government announced a package of changes and tax cuts worth almost £13.6 billion over the next five years, including:</p><ul><li>a freeze to the business rates multiplier for 2023-24, a tax cut worth £9.3 billion over the next 5 years, meaning all bills are 6% lower than without the freeze;</li><li>an Exchequer funded Transitional Relief scheme worth £1.6 billion to protect an estimated 700,000 ratepayers facing bill increases due to increases in rateable value. The Government has announced that it will permanently scrap ‘downwards caps’ which had restricted falling bills in previous schemes. This will benefit around 300,000 ratepayers who will see their full bill decrease from April 2023.</li><li>providing over £500 million of support over the next three years with a new Supporting Small Business. This will cap bill increases to £50 per month (£600 per year) for businesses losing some or all of their Small Business or Rural Rate Relief due to the revaluation.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Nurseries were previously eligible for full and partial business rates relief to support them through COVID. Businesses would have been eligible for the nurseries discount if the business.</p><ul><li>was on Ofsted’s Early Years Register; <em>and</em></li><li>the premises was wholly or mainly used to provide the Early Years Foundation Stage of education.</li></ul> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/01/2023 17:31:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1273143

registered interest
date	30/12/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Nurseries: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the business rates holiday granted for nurseries beyond March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Dr Kieran Mullan
uin	133302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>This year the Government has provided an unprecedented business rates holiday for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure properties, and nurseries, due to the direct adverse effects of COVID-19, worth over £10 billion. In the 2020 Spending Review, the Government committed further support to businesses by freezing the business rates multiplier for 2021-22.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the important contribution that nurseries and childminders are making to the national response to COVID-19. In the Spending Review we announced that we’re providing £44 million next year to increase hourly rates paid to childcare providers. This is on top of the additional £66m increase confirmed in Spending Round 2019.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ensure that any decisions best meet the evolving challenges presented by COVID-19, the government will outline plans for 2021-22 reliefs in early 2021.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 11/01/2021 08:11:07 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4860 label Biography information for Dr Kieran Mullan

1217953

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Nurseries: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Education of 18 March 2020, Official Report, column 1083 on business rate relief for nurseries, what the Barnett consequentials are for Northern Ireland of that relief.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	65030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Executive will receive around £3 million of additional funding as a result of the business rate relief for nurseries.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 30/06/2020 14:19:27 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1196035

registered interest
date	15/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Nurseries: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing business rate exemptions for nurseries in England.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	47304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2020 answer text <p>On 18 March, the Chancellor announced that non-local authority childcare providers would benefit from a business rates holiday for 2020-21.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/05/2020 14:41:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1185539

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Nurseries: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has for private nurseries to be included in the plans for 100 per cent business rates relief.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	30180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>In an exceptional response to Covid-19, from 1 April non-local authority providers of childcare will pay no business rates in 2020-21. This is alongside eligible businesses in retail, leisure and hospitality sectors who will benefit from a business rates holiday, irrespective of a property’s rateable value. MHCLG will publish guidance on the business rates holiday for nurseries shortly.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/03/2020 15:11:18 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore