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693174

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 22 February 2017, how the hardest cases of small businesses that are particularly affected by the business rates revaluation will be defined and identified; how appropriate relief will be calculated; for how long such relief will apply; how much new funding will be made available for transitional relief; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	65228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>A £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme will provide support to properties which face an increase in rates. My Department is working closely with the Treasury to determine how best to provide further support to businesses facing the steepest increases. We expect to be in a position to make an announcement on this at the Budget.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 02/03/2017 16:53:07 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

623468

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to review the level of small business rate relief.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	50971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>At Budget the Government announced the biggest ever cut in business rates worth over £6 billion and benefitting half of all non-domestic properties from April 2017.</p><p>The Government is permanently doubling the level of Small Business Rate Relief and increasing the thresholds. Eligible properties with a rateable value of £12,000 and below will receive 100% relief. This means that 600,000 small businesses will pay no business rates at all. Eligible businesses with a property with a rateable value between £12,000 and £15,000 will receive tapered relief.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 07/11/2016 16:46:41 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

983155

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to take account of (a) housing costs and (b) all other elements of the local cost of living in the calculation of small business rates relief.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	176218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Business rates are charged on most non-domestic properties, and small business rate relief applies uniformly across England where a business property’s rateable value is less that £15,000.</p><p> </p><p>Where a business occupies more than one property, the total value of all their property must be below £28,000 in London, or £20,000 in the rest of England, to be eligible for small business rate relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to considering the feasibility of replacing small business rate relief with a business rates allowance for small businesses once local authority and HMRC systems are linked in line with our planned digitalisation of business rates.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 176219 question first answered 16/10/2018 16:51:14 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

983156

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic 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 validity of the recommendation by the Federation of Small Businesses that the rates relief rule which penalises a small business taking on additional premises be abolished and replaced with a personal threshold which is applied to multiple properties owned by one business; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	176219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Business rates are charged on most non-domestic properties, and small business rate relief applies uniformly across England where a business property’s rateable value is less that £15,000.</p><p> </p><p>Where a business occupies more than one property, the total value of all their property must be below £28,000 in London, or £20,000 in the rest of England, to be eligible for small business rate relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to considering the feasibility of replacing small business rate relief with a business rates allowance for small businesses once local authority and HMRC systems are linked in line with our planned digitalisation of business rates.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 176218 question first answered 16/10/2018 16:51:14 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

485566

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how he plans that the section 31 grant to compensate councils for the extension of small business rate relief will be funded.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	32229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>By raising £8 billion through a package of measures to counter tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning by multinational enterprises, Government has been able to announce in the Budget a £6.7 billion reduction in business rates. This is the biggest ever cut in business rates in England. The funding for these section 31 grants was provided for in Budget 2016 through the Budget scorecard (lines 15-17). This additional funding is included in the DCLG Local Government DEL budget figures on page 91 of the Budget Report.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 19/04/2016 16:52:52 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

947431

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing the Small Business Multiplier to (a) help small traders and (b) support high streets.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	168153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>High streets are a crucial part of our communities, and the Government recognises the sector faces challenges. That’s why we recently announced a call for evidence looking at the future of our high streets. We are establishing a panel of industry leaders to diagnose the issues currently affecting our high streets, and advise on the best long-term approach to help their revival.</p><p>The Government has introduced a range of business rates reforms and measures worth over £10 billion to 2023. This includes increasing the threshold for Small Business Rates Relief, meaning over 600,000 small businesses - occupiers of a third of all properties – pay no business rates at all. We have also brought forward the switch in the annual indexation of business rates from Retail Price Index to the main measure of inflation, currently Consumer Price Index. Bringing forward this measure two years earlier than previously planned is worth £2.3 billion over the next 5 years.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 04/09/2018 14:57:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

758560

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many small and medium sized businesses will be impacted by the Valuation Office Agency's decision to class communal spaces such as staircases, corridors and lifts as separate premises for business rate purposes; and how many such businesses will be billed retrospectively as a result of this change.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1431
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>In July 2015, the Supreme Court clarified existing rating law relating to communal spaces such as staircases, corridors and lifts. The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) has a legal duty to adapt its practices to reflect the judgment.</p><p> </p><p>The VOA assesses the value of property and not the businesses that occupy the property. As such, it does not hold information on whether the occupant of a property is a small or medium business.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL1432 question first answered 18/09/2017 11:51:43 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

758561

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on small and medium sized businesses of the Valuation Office Agency's decision to class communal spaces such as staircases, corridors and lifts as separate premises for the calculation of business rates.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>In July 2015, the Supreme Court clarified existing rating law relating to communal spaces such as staircases, corridors and lifts. The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) has a legal duty to adapt its practices to reflect the judgment.</p><p> </p><p>The VOA assesses the value of property and not the businesses that occupy the property. As such, it does not hold information on whether the occupant of a property is a small or medium business.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL1431 question first answered 18/09/2017 11:51:44 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

678761

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received from small businesses and their trade bodies on the potential effect of business rates revaluation on their businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	61653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>In September 2016 we issued a consultation document on transitional relief for the 2017 revaluation. We received responses from ratepayers and organisations representing small businesses including the Federation of Small Businesses and the Association of Convenience Stores. A summary of responses is available on my Department's website at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/business-rates-revaluation-2017" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/business-rates-revaluation-2017</a></p><p>Nearly three quarters of businesses will see no change or a fall in their bills from 1 April thanks to the business rates revaluation, with 600,000 businesses set to pay no business rates at all. A £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme will provide support for the minority who do face an increase.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 01/02/2017 15:07:36 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 32996 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

767936

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: 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 Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 12 September (HL1544), what activities they are undertaking as part of their consideration of the impact on SMEs of the recent change in how the Valuation Office Agency assesses single business spaces covering multiple floors; whether they will be seeking evidence from third parties to inform their considerations; whether they will be publishing their findings; and if so, by what date.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>It is the statutory duty of the Valuation Office Agency to determine rateable values and decide what should constitute a single rating assessment. They do this independently of Ministers. The Supreme Court judgement clarified how ratepayers in multi-occupied buildings should be treated for business rates. So this is not the result of a change in Government policy but a consequence of a legal ruling by the highest court in the land.</p><p>The Government is listening to ratepayers, sector bodies and rating professionals who have raised concerns about the implications from this judgement. These implications may flow from the Valuation Office Agency concluding that the total rateable value of separate assessments is different to the rateable value when they were assessed as one. This is due to a widespread effect in the property market known as “quantum” under which larger occupations tend to be cheaper to rent per square metre then smaller ones. We are also aware of some instances where ratepayers have lost some or all of their Small Business Rate Relief because they are now considered to have more than one property. We are considering these implications and how they have affected ratepayers.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 23/10/2017 16:27:30 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn