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1700393

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of businesses that were eligible for business rates relief in the 2023-24 financial year are no longer eligible in the 2024-25 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	21280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold the data required to answer this question. Information on the number of hereditaments eligible for business rates relief is available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-non-domestic-rates-collected-by-councils" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare question first answered 22/04/2024 15:27:30 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1691784

registered interest
date	26/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether there is a cap on the maximum amount of business rates relief that can be applied under provisions relating to subsidy controls.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	15769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The UK subsidy control regime does not put numerical limits on the amount of business rates relief that can be provided. Where business rates reliefs constitute a subsidy, public authorities providing those reliefs must consider the subsidy control principles and can provide reliefs at any level they consider to be consistent with those principles.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 29/02/2024 09:54:05 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1674594

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the 75% reduction in business rates offered by the Retail, Hospitality, and Leisure relief scheme to cover the 2024-25 tax year.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	4855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2023, the government announced it will extend the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure relief scheme at 75 per cent, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2024-25. Around 230,000 retail, hospitality and leisure properties will be eligible for this relief, a tax cut worth nearly £2.4 billion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/12/2023 10:21:40 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1667744

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
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 extend the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme beyond the current deadline.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2022 the Government announced an increased 75% relief for retail, hospitality and leisure properties, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2023-24. This is a tax cut worth over £2 billion for around 230,000 RHL businesses, to support the high street and protect small shops.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on future business rates support will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 15/11/2023 15:10:07 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1665908

registered interest
date	18/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
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 potential merits of providing further business rate reliefs to support (a) small businesses, (b) other businesses, (c) high streets and town centres and (d) local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	203286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2022, the Government announced a package of changes and tax cuts worth £13.6 billion over the next five years, including:</p><ul><li>a freeze to the business rates multiplier for 2023-24, a tax cut worth £9.3 billion over the next 5 years, meaning all bills are 6% lower than without the freeze;</li><li>an increased 75% relief for Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) properties, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2023-24. This is a tax cut worth over £2 billion for around 230,000 RHL businesses, to support the high street and protect small shops.</li></ul><ul><li>an Exchequer funded Transitional Relief scheme worth £1.6 billion to protect an estimated 700,000 ratepayers facing bill increases due to increases in rateable value. The Government has announced that it will permanently scrap ‘downwards caps’ which had restricted falling bills in previous schemes. This will benefit around 300,000 ratepayers who will see their full bill decrease from April 2023.</li><li>providing over £500 million of support over the next three years with a new Supporting Small Business scheme. This will cap bill increases to £50 per month (£600 per year) for businesses losing some or all of their Small Business or Rural Rate Relief due to the revaluation.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Decisions on future business rates support will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/10/2023 07:39:47 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1653588

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) feasibility and (b) potential merits of extending the retail, hospitality and leisure business rates relief scheme beyond 31 March 2024 for businesses in business improvement districts.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	194609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>The 2023-2024 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) Business Rates Relief scheme provides eligible, occupied, retail, hospitality and leisure properties with a 75 per cent relief, up to a cash cap limit of £110,000 per business. This was an expansion from the 50 per cent rate in 2022-2023. Currently, around 230,000 properties are eligible for this relief, representing a tax cut worth over £2 billion.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses may also benefit from other business rates measures, including the multiplier freeze, and the Supporting Small Business scheme, which caps bill increases at £600 per year for businesses losing some or all of their eligibility for Small Business or Rural Rate Relief due to the recent revaluation.</p><p> </p><p>Any future announcements regarding business rates relief will be made at a fiscal event.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/07/2023 14:58:52 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1643589

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Business Rates Relief for Mitigation of Lost of SBRR Grant.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	188943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my answer to Question UIN <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-questions%2Fdetail%2F2023-06-08%2F188581&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cf86ca04c5ce14321293108db70af87d5%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638227671417339187%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FkJgeks3XOliLun6qPOLxRnTJUAFfQqnDIVrHBk56mc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">188581</a> on 14 June 2023.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 188941 188942 188944 question first answered 20/06/2023 12:19:05 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1542502

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
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 to continue business rates relief beyond the 2022-2023 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	88016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government has announced a package of support worth £13.6 billion for businesses over the next five years. Together with the revaluation, this package ensures bills will more accurately reflect current market values whilst protecting businesses from large bill increases.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sector will receive a tax cut worth over £2 billion in 2023-24. Eligible properties will receive 75% off their business rates bill, up to a cap of £110,000 per business, an increase from the 50% relief last year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed to freezing the multiplier for a further year, which is a tax cut worth £9.3 billion to businesses over the next 5 years and means all bills are 6% lower, before any reliefs or supplements, than without the freeze.</p><p> </p><p>To protect businesses from large bill increases on 1 April 2023, the Government announced a 3 year Exchequer funded Transitional Relief (TR) scheme worth £1.6 billion. This will support around 700,000 ratepayers in England, as they transition to their new bills. The reformed TR scheme will also allow ratepayers whose rateable values have fallen to benefit from the full reduction in their business rates bills on 1 April by abolishing downwards caps, delivering a key stakeholder ask.</p><p>An extended Supporting Small Business (SSB) scheme will provide over £500 million of support over the next three years to businesses losing all or some of their Small Business or Rural Rate Relief, due to the 2023 revaluation, at £50 per month. This is worth five times more than the previous scheme, and will support five times as many properties.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/11/2022 16:59:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1417262

registered interest
date	27/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total cost of the Business Rates relief introduced in March 2020 has been to the Treasury.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	113107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2022 answer text <p>According to the national non-domestic rates data collected by local authorities, the cost of the retail, hospitality, and leisure relief was £11.1 billion in 2020-21, and is expected to be £5.8 billion in 2021-22. This data is published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-non-domestic-rates-collected-by-councils" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-non-domestic-rates-collected-by-councils</a></p><p> </p><p>This support means that eligible properties paid no business rates for 15 months from 1 April 2020. Additionally, due to the 66 per cent capped relief which took effect on 1 July 2021, over 90 per cent of eligible businesses will see a 75 per cent reduction in their business rates bill across this entire financial year to next April.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/02/2022 11:48:48 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1403284

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Business Rates: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the value is of business rates relief provided to (a) the retail sector, (b) the hospitality sector, (c) the leisure sector and (d) airports in England during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	105470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The total value of business rates relief provided to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors in England was £11.1 billion in 2020/21, and is forecasted to be £5.8 billion in 2021/22</p><p><br> The renewed Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme (AGOSS) that the Chancellor announced at the Autumn Budget provides support for eligible businesses with their fixed costs for a further six months, up to the equivalent of their business rates liabilities for the second half of the 2021-22 financial year, subject to certain conditions and a cap per claimant of £4 million.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 26/01/2022 15:22:30 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith