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943950

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have provided business rate relief to private, voluntary and independent childcare providers.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	165665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Local discounts are a matter for individual authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 165631 question first answered 23/07/2018 15:34:38 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

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

932830

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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	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 fairness of business rates in England.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL9111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government undertook a fundamental review of business rates in 2016 and decided to retain business rates as a property tax. Recognising the pressures on business the Government has since introduced a range of business rates reforms and measures to support businesses worth over £10 billion by 2023, including permanently doubling Small Business Rate Relief and raising the threshold for relief, meaning that 600,000 small businesses now pay no rates, and helping all businesses by switching the measure of inflation from Retail Price Index to Consumer Price Index.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 13/07/2018 13:41:36 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

931630

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Non-domestic Rates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost to local government of collecting business rates in England in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Fox
uin	HL8978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2018 answer text <p>Data reported by local authorities in England on the amount spent on collecting non-domestic rates for 2014-15 to 2016-17 can be found in the tables below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Total service expenditure for non-domestic rates collection</p></td><td><p>Total income for non-domestic rates collection</p></td><td><p>Net current expenditure for non-domestic rates collection</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>90.8</p></td><td><p>73.8</p></td><td><p>17.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>86.6</p></td><td><p>75.5</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>93.2</p></td><td><p>81.8</p></td><td><p>11.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Local authorities are able to offset the costs of collections through fees and charges, which is shown in the table as income. Additionally, under the rates retention system, we give billing authorities an “allowance” made up of business rates income, for which they retain 100 per cent, instead of having to share it with central government and their major precepting authorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 10/07/2018 15:46:10 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4322 label Biography information for Lord Fox

887220

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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	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, whether he plans to review the level of business rate relief for childcare providers.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	136784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to review the level of business rates relief for childcare providers.</p><p>The Government has introduced a package of support on business rates worth over £10 billion by 2023. This includes permanently doubling Small Business Rate Relief to 100 per cent, taking over 600,000 small businesses out of paying business rates entirely, and a £435 million package of support for ratepayers facing the steepest increases in bills following the 2017 revaluation. Furthermore, all business, including childcare providers, will benefit from the Government’s decision to bring forward the switch of the annual indexation of business rates from RPI to CPI by two years to April 2018. This measure alone will be worth £2.3 billion over 5 years.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 24/04/2018 16:40:33 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

833030

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	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, which criteria were used to determine the allocation of the latest round of business rates retention pilots.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	125346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>All applications to become a 100 per cent business rates retention pilot in 2018/19 were assessed under the criteria laid out in the ‘Invitation to Local Authorities in England to pilot 100% Business Rates Retention in 2018/19 and to pioneer new pooling and tier-split models’, published on 1 September 2017:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654936/Pilots_1819_Prospectus.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654936/Pilots_1819_Prospectus.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 01/02/2018 15:22:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

810192

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of the effect on high streets of changes to business rates.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	120658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Valuations for the purposes of rating are carried out independently by the Valuation Office Agency. The majority of ratepayers have seen no change or a fall in their bills. However, for those facing increases as a result of the 2017 revaluation we have provided a £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme.</p><p>At the 2016 Budget, the Chancellor announced the biggest ever cut in business rates – worth nearly £9 billion across the next five years, taking 600,000 small businesses out of paying rates. In the Spring 2017 Budget, we announced £435 million support to businesses seeing increases in rates bills. In the Autumn 2017 Budget, the Chancellor announced that he will bring forward the switch of the annual indexation of business rates from RPI to the CPI by two years, which is worth £4.1 billion by 2023.</p><p>The Government is committed to supporting small and medium size businesses on our high streets. Since 2010, we have given over £18 million to struggling town centres through the High Streets Innovation Fund and launched successful initiatives such as “Love Your Local Market”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 15/01/2018 17:10:47 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

802641

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the overall percentage of business rate retention is and whether local authorities will be able to retain all of the new growth element announced in Autumn budget 2017.
tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
uin	118191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>All authorities in England retain at least 50 per cent of their business rates income.</p><p>The Government remains committed to further business rates retention and is working collaboratively with the local government sector to deliver further retention and reform the system.</p><p>In the Autumn Budget 2017 a London pilot 100 per cent Business Rate Retention Scheme was announced and will commence in April 2018, as well as a continuation in the 2018/19 cycle for the five current 100 per cent business rates pilots.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 14/12/2017 17:09:01 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

801214

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to protect local authorities from the loss of business rate income that has been identified as a consequence of bringing forward CPI uprating in the 2017 Autumn Budget policy costings.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL3871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lord to my answer of 7 December to PQ HL 3516.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 13/12/2017 16:53:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

800714

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
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
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 4 December 2017 from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities applied for business rate retention.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	117335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>There were 26 valid applications that were received for the 100 per cent Business Rates Retention Pilots 2018-19. From the applications, 25 were from existing or proposed pools and 1 from a single authority. Please see the attached list.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 12/12/2017 17:23:53 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones attachment 1 file name Business Rates Retention Pilots 2018-19.docx title Business Rates Retention Pilots 2018-19
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman