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708451

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date	06/03/2017
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	Non-domestic Rates: Nurseries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities require private day care nurseries to pay full business rates.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	66617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>Billing authorities may apply discretionary relief to certain rate payers. This is entirely a matter for billing authorities. This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 14/03/2017 17:24:28 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

536434

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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	Retail Trade: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to prevent shop closures in town centres.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	42767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that high streets remain at the heart of their community and as a Government we have taken significant actions to help high streets thrive through a range of targeted tax breaks, sensible planning changes and measures to ensure fairer parking for motorists.</p><p>At the Budget, we announced the biggest ever cut in business rates in England – worth £6.7 billion over the next five years, cutting business rates for all ratepayers, and meaning 600,000 of the smallest businesses won’t have to pay business rates. We have also given over £18 million to fund successful initiatives such “Love Your Local Market” and the “Great British High Street Competition”, and have recently announced a digital pilot programme in Gloucestershire, to support town centres and SMEs to compete in the digital era.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 42770 question first answered 19/07/2016 14:55:50 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

536436

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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	Retail Trade: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to reduce the decline of high streets in UK towns and cities.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	42770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that high streets remain at the heart of their community and as a Government we have taken significant actions to help high streets thrive through a range of targeted tax breaks, sensible planning changes and measures to ensure fairer parking for motorists.</p><p>At the Budget, we announced the biggest ever cut in business rates in England – worth £6.7 billion over the next five years, cutting business rates for all ratepayers, and meaning 600,000 of the smallest businesses won’t have to pay business rates. We have also given over £18 million to fund successful initiatives such “Love Your Local Market” and the “Great British High Street Competition”, and have recently announced a digital pilot programme in Gloucestershire, to support town centres and SMEs to compete in the digital era.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 42767 question first answered 19/07/2016 14:55:50 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

536437

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the levels of demand on social care services.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	42771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>We recognise that demand for social care is growing and this was a consideration in last year's Spending Review.</p><p>The Spending Review settlement provides up to £3.5 billion of new support for adult social care by 2019/20 - greater than the £2.9 billion that the Local Government Association estimated was needed for adult social care in their Spending Review submission. The vast majority of councils have already taken advantage of the opportunity to introduce a new Social Care Precept, which allows them to increase council tax by 2% above the existing threshold. By the end of the Parliament, this will raise up to £2 billion that must be spent exclusively on adult social care. In addition, by 2019/20 an extra £1.5 billion per year will be available for inclusion in the Better Care Fund.</p><p>Taken together, the Social Care Precept and the Better Care Fund will mean local government has access to the funding needed to increase social care spending in real terms by the end of the Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 19/07/2016 14:52:42 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi