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	date	30/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	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 Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that levels of business rates do not put the future of small businesses at risk.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
	uin	4994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has committed to completing a major review of business rates by the end of 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Autumn Statement 2014 announced a £1bn package of measures to reduce the burden of business rates, focussed on small businesses and retailers, including:</p><p>· extending the doubling of the Small Business Rate Relief until April 2016;</p><p>· continuing the 2% cap on the inflation-linked increase in the business rates multiplier until April 2016; and</p><p>· increasing the retail discount for shops, pubs, cafes and restaurants until April 2016</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/07/2015 13:32:32 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

388836

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	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 Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of business rates on micro-businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Nusrat Ghani
	uin	6340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The government recognises that business rates represent a fixed cost which can be more burdensome during times of economic difficulty, particularly for small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>This is why, at Autumn Statement 2014, the Chancellor announced a £1 billion package of business rates support measures, with a focus on small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>This package included doubling the Small Business Rate Relief scheme until April 2016 supporting 575,000 businesses operating from single small properties.</p><p> </p><p>The impact of business rates on the smallest businesses is also one of the issues that will be considered under the fundamental review of the business rates system which the Chancellor launched in March 2015 and is due to report by the end of 2015.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 15/07/2015 14:13:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani