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date	15/03/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether shared workspaces for the self-employed and small businesses will be eligible for the proposed business rate relief discretionary support.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	68017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>My Department is currently consulting on the £300 million discretionary relief scheme. The scheme will enable local authorities to help those individual businesses that are facing increased rates bills. Local authorities will be responsible for the design of local schemes which will include setting the eligibility criteria that will apply. The consultation is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/discretionary-business-rates-relief-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/discretionary-business-rates-relief-scheme</a></p><p>Additionally, the £110 million Supporting Small Business Relief Scheme will also be available to assist those ratepayers losing small business rates relief or rural rate relief as a result of revaluation.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 24/03/2017 14:42:04 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

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date	26/04/2016
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a recent estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of exempting plant and machinery from the calculation of business rates.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	35570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>The government has carefully considered the case for exempting plant and machinery from business rates. However, there would also be fundamental operational challenges to delivering an exemption on account of the way in which the plant and machinery is embedded in the premises concerned, making its exclusion from the calculation more difficult.</p><p> </p><p>The government will continue to incentivise investment through better targeted measures, such as the Annual Investment Allowance and Research and Development Tax credits, and through the reductions in the rate of Corporation tax that are in place and that have been announced.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 05/05/2016 11:35:37 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves