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1461897

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Business Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he is taking steps to reduce the burden of business rates on small and medium businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text With the conclusion of the Business Rates Review at Autumn Budget 2021, the Government has delivered meaningful reform and cuts worth £7 billion to business over the next five years. This includes a multiplier freeze in 2022-23 which will support all ratepayers, large and small, and a new temporary relief for retail, hospitality, and leisure businesses worth almost £1.7 billion in 2022-23. In addition, over a third of properties (700,000) already pay no business rates as a result of 100 per cent relief through Small Business Rates Relief, with an additional 121,000 in the taper. answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/05/2022 15:59:03 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1285855

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Business Rates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the rates relief threshold for small businesses.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL13284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text The Government has no immediate plans to change the eligibility criteria for Small Business Rates Relief (SBRR).<p> </p><p>Properties with a rateable value of £12,000 or less pay no business rates under SBRR. For properties with a rateable value above £12,000 and less than £15,000, SBRR tapers from 100% relief to 0%.</p><p> </p><p>The fundamental review of business rates will consider all parts of the business rates system, including reliefs and any eligibility criteria.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 24/02/2021 12:05:44 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1192648

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: 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 a business rates freeze for small retail, tourism and leisure commercial units which are currently unoccupied.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Scott Benton
	uin	43188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government maintains empty property relief to support property owners between the reoccupation of vacated premises. Under empty property relief, owners of properties do not normally have to pay business rates on newly vacated buildings for three months. Certain properties are also eligible for extended empty property relief.</p><p> </p><p>Properties which have closed temporarily due to the Government’s advice on COVID-19 should be treated as occupied for the purposes of the business rates holiday for retail, hospitality and leisure properties.</p><p> </p><p>A range of further measures to support all businesses, including those not eligible for the business rates holiday, has also been made available.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/05/2020 09:05:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1186535

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: 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 extending the small business rate relief grant to businesses operating in non-rateable premises.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	32198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government has set out a package of measures to support businesses through this period of disruption caused by COVID-19, including those businesses not eligible for the small business grant or the retail, leisure and hospitality grant.</p><p> </p><p>This support for business includes the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan scheme for small and medium-sized businesses, a statutory sick pay relief package, the HMRC Time To Pay Scheme, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help firms continue to keep people in employment and a new lending facility from the Bank of England for larger firms.</p><p> </p><p>These measures provide a comprehensive, coordinated and coherent response to what is a serious and evolving economic situation. As the wider economic picture becomes clearer, the Government will do whatever it takes to get the nation through the impacts of COVID-19 and the Government stands ready to announce further action wherever necessary.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 32223 question first answered 24/03/2020 15:25:18 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1278725

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Business Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from SMEs that have not received business rates support to help mitigate the effects of the covid-19 outbreak; and when he plans to make an announcement on future support for those businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Halton
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	uin	140745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government has put in place a substantial package of support for businesses worth over £280 billion, which includes loans, tax deferrals, and general and sector-specific grants. It continues to engage with businesses and representative groups, including SMEs, to ensure that the support provided is right for the affected areas and for the economy as a whole.</p><p>On 5 January the Government announced one-off grants for businesses of up to £9,000. The Government will continue to ensure businesses are supported in the coming months, as measures to control the virus change, and it will keep all impacts and policies under review. The Chancellor will consider any further decisions on taxation as part of the Budget process.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/01/2021 16:53:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1538706

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: 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 a complete temporary suspension of business rates in order to protect small businesses during the cost of living crisis.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
	tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
	uin	77504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>The Final Report of the Business Rates Review was published at Autumn Budget 2021. The report reaffirmed the importance of business rates for raising revenue for essential local services, and announced a package of changes worth almost £7 billion over the next 5 years, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A freeze in the multiplier for 2022-23, a tax cut worth £4.6 billion over the next 5 years;</li><li>A new temporary 50 per cent relief for retail, hospitality and leisure in 2022-23, worth up to £110,000 per business and providing almost £1.7 billion to the sector. Together with Small Business Rates Relief, this means over 90 per cent of retail, hospitality and leisure businesses will receive at least a 50 per cent reduction in their business rates bills in 2022-23;</li><li>Help for businesses to improve their premises and go green through a new exemption for onsite renewable energy generation and storage, which will now take effect from 2022 until 2035.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Announcements on Business Rates for the upcoming financial year will be made in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 09/11/2022 16:56:08 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1565320

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: 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 the impact of removing rates relief on small businesses after the first quarter of 2023.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>Small Business Rates Relief (SBRR) is available to businesses with a single property below a set rateable value. Properties under £12,000 receive 100 per cent relief. There is also tapered support available to properties valued up to £15,000. Over a third of properties (700,000) already pay no business rates as a result of 100 per cent relief through SBRR, with an additional 121,000 in the taper.</p><p> </p><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, many of which may be available for small businesses, 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 per cent lower than without the freeze;</li><li>an increased 75 per cent relief for retail, hospitality and leisure properties, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2023-24. This is a tax cut worth over £2 billion for around 230,000 RHL businesses, to support the high street and protect small shops.</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.</li><li>a new Supporting Small Business scheme, providing over £500 million of support over the next three years. 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> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 23/01/2023 16:09:23 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1507678

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: 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 lifting the Small Business Rates Threshold to £25,000 for SMEs in winter 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	54534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) is available to businesses with a single property with a rateable value below the threshold of £15,000. The relief targets the smallest businesses where help is needed most, with more than 700,000 of the smallest businesses paying no rates at all. Further increases in the generosity of SBRR would be a broad-based and an indiscriminate way to provide support and would therefore be a poorly targeted form of relief.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 2021, the Government announced a package of changes worth £7 billion to business over the next 5 years. This includes a freeze to the multiplier for 2022-23, which will support all ratepayers large and small, and almost £1.7 billion in support for the retail, hospitality, and leisure sectors in 2022-23.</p><p> </p><p>As with all taxes, the Government keeps business rates under review.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 11/10/2022 07:00:50 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1225440

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Business Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the eligibility criteria for business rates relief.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
	uin	905051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>Eligibility for business rates relief is set out in the guidance on GOV.UK. In line with previous Governments, discussions in Cabinet are not revealed publicly.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/07/2020 14:15:21 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1282096

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: 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 extending small business rate relief to landlords that have lost rental income from commercial properties as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	145785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>Businesses in receipt of their own business rates assessment and which meet the criteria may be eligible for business rate reliefs, including Small Business Rate Relief. The Government has no plan to change eligibility for SBRR.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the impact that the continued non-payment of rent has on landlords. The Government has made available over £330 billion of guarantees through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme and the Coronavirus Corporate Financing Facility. These are available to businesses across different sizes and sectors, and directly support landlords with their cashflow issues. The Government is also continuing to work with lenders to ensure flexible support is being provided to commercial landlords.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/02/2021 17:10:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield