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224405

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many business rates appeals (a) are outstanding, (b) have been received and (c) have been cleared, in each region; and what the median number of days taken is to clear business rates appeals in each region.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	225941
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>'Local Rating Lists: Business Rates' statistics can be found in the 2010 'Local Rating list: day-to-day rating workload' Table As at:<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/non-domestic-rates-business-rates-local-rating-lists-experimental--2</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 17/03/2015 17:33:58 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

387284

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when all challenges to the 2005 Rating List for England and Wales will be finally resolved.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	5497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>99.7% of the outstanding appeals against the 2005 Rating List in England and Wales have been cleared.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Of the cases that remain, many involve complex litigation, with lead cases that are still to be resolved by the Valuation Tribunal for England or Wales or the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber). Once the lead cases are resolved, many of the remaining cases will also be cleared.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 07/07/2015 14:24:51 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

169761

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.161 of the Autumn Statement 2014, when the Government plans to (a) publish the terms of reference for and (b) launch the review of the future structure of business rates.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	218343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2014, the government announced it will conduct a review of the future structure of business rates to report by Budget 2016. The review will be fiscally neutral and consistent with the government’s agreed financing of local authorities. The government will publish terms of reference in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 16/12/2014 17:02:29 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

346897

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to change the amount of money raised from small and medium-sized businesses through business rates; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Eltham
	tabling member printed	Clive Efford
	uin	309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Autumn Statement 2014 reduced the burden of business rates for 575,000 small businesses by doubling the Small Business Rate Relief until April 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Budget 2015 launched a wide-ranging and ambitious review of business rates that will report by the end of 2015. I encourage all interested stakeholders to engage with the review.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/06/2015 15:48:38 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

1121422

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic 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 replacing business rates with a transaction tax on retail sales in order to support the UK's high streets.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	244033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>Business rates raise £25 billion in England annually, and are an important source of funding for key local services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government concluded a fundamental review of business rates in 2016. Some respondents suggested alternative taxes, but there was no consensus and respondents were clear that these alternatives were not without their own issues.</p><p> </p><p>Respondents agreed that property based taxes were easy to collect, difficult to avoid, stable and clearly linked with local authority spending. Following stakeholder responses, the Government decided to keep business rates as a property tax.</p><p> </p><p>To support the high street, at Budget 2018 the Government announced Our Plan for the High Street – a package of support worth £1.6 billion.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 24/04/2019 12:04:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1064227

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 12 February (218387), what are the measures and reforms which have led to the cuts to business rates in England that are worth more than £13 billion over the next five years; and what are the anticipated amounts attributable to each such measure and reform in each year of that period.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Lytton
	uin	HL13873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>Government has announced support for ratepayers in the form of more generous Small Business Rate Relief, linking the multiplier to CPI rather than RPI inflation, a new retail discount, raising the threshold for the standard multiplier, and a range of other smaller reliefs. In total, these measures are estimated to be worth over £13bn between 2019-20 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>This figure includes approximately £6bn for making 100% Small Business Rate Relief permanent and raising the thresholds of the relief from 2017; around £6bn for switching from RPI to CPI inflation from 2018; £0.9bn for the two-year retail discount from 2019; and an estimated £0.5bn for raising the threshold of the standard multiplier from 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 05/03/2019 14:53:11 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1864 label Biography information for The Earl of Lytton

999160

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic 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 effect of the new business rates relief announced in Budget 2018 on local authority finances.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
	uin	186407
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>The Budget confirmed that local government will be fully compensated for the loss of income that results from changes to business rates announced in the Budget.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 186408 question first answered 09/11/2018 10:54:06 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

999161

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether local authorities that see a reduction in funding as a result of the change to business rates will receive additional funding from central Government.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
	uin	186408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>The Budget confirmed that local government will be fully compensated for the loss of income that results from changes to business rates announced in the Budget.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 186407 question first answered 09/11/2018 10:54:06 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

387283

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when all challenges to the 2010 Rating List for England and Wales will be finally resolved.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	5512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The Valuation Office Agency will endeavour to clear these appeals as quickly as possible. It will look to prioritise the clearance of appeals, as it always does, to support businesses in hardship.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 08/07/2015 08:16:34 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

935139

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the business rates system; and when they expect to make any resulting changes to the system of business rates in England.
	tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
	uin	HL9256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The government concluded a fundamental review of business rates at Budget 2016 and decided that business rates should remain as a property tax. Respondents to the review agreed that property based taxes were easy to collect, difficult to avoid, relatively stable compared to other taxes and had a clear link with local authority spending. They also raise revenue in a way that is less distortionary than some other taxes. There was no consensus on an alternative tax base. Following the review, the government introduced reforms and reductions worth over £10bn by 2023 to cut the burden of business rates.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/07/2018 15:40:51 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington