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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

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

797582

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether his Department plans to review the business rates system.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	116545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The government undertook the last fundamental review of business rates in 2016 and announced major reforms worth approx. £9bn to businesses by the end of the parliament. At Autumn Budget 2017, the government delivered more support on business rates including businesses’ top priorities to bring forward the switch to CPI indexation, revalue properties more frequently and to address the staircase tax. As a next step, the government is also reviewing the wider taxation of the digital economy. This includes ensuring international corporate tax rules deliver fair results across different businesses and that sellers operating through online marketplaces pay the right amount of VAT.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 05/12/2017 16:00:03 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami

792996

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
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 consideration he has given to redistributing the share of business rates that central Government receives to help relieve financial pressures on local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	114781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government has always been clear that increased rates retention by local government would need to be matched and funded by equivalent devolution of new responsibilities or the ending of grants. The assessment of the overall level of funding for local government is a function of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/11/2017 14:59:46 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

776011

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
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 Answer of 17 October 2017 to Question 106733, on non-domestic rates, from what date the data presented in that Answer is accurate.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	109026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The information referenced in my previous answer was first published on 13 October 2017 and was based on information provided by local authorities. It has been amended and is updated on a regular basis as authorities advise us that they have begun to rebill for each of the relief schemes. It was last updated on 23 October and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-schemes-2017-rebilling-progress" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-schemes-2017-rebilling-progress</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 26/10/2017 13:26:00 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

772067

registered interest
date	17/10/2017
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 steps he is taking to ensure small businesses working in separate parts of a building linked by communal staircases, lifts and corridors do not have those spaces classed as separate premises by the Valuation Office when business rates are being assessed.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	108201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is aware of the change in the Valuation Office Agency’s approach to assessing units within buildings of multiple occupation, following the Supreme Court judgement in the Mazars v Woolway case. The Government is considering the implications of this judgement.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 23/10/2017 16:15:13 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

767432

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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 it remains his Department's policy to publish a list of local authorities that have notified that they have re-billed for each of the three rates relief schemes; and what the reasons are for the time taken to publish that data.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	106733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government published the list of local authorities that notified the Department that they have re-billed each of the three rates relief. It is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-schemes-2017-rebilling-progress" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-schemes-2017-rebilling-progress</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 17/10/2017 10:12:15 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

760652

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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, when he or officials of his Department first consulted (a) local authorities and (b) software suppliers on the implementation timetable changes to business rates and business rates relief in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	105160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Following the Chancellor’s announcement of the Business Rates Relief Schemes at Spring Budget 2017, on 9 March the Department published a Business Rates Information Letter to local authorities. This provided information on each of the three schemes, including draft allocations for the discretionary relief scheme and guidance on the Supporting Small Business Scheme. On 10 March the Department began discussions with a group of local authorities and the main software suppliers to discuss the implementation of the schemes and system requirements.</p><p>The Department has continued to engage local authorities and software suppliers, encouraging authorities to speed up implementation and the technical guidance for the Supporting Small Business Scheme and Pubs Relief Scheme was published on the 20 June. On 14 September 2017, I made a Written Ministerial Statement, which set out the good progress made by some authorities and a commitment to publish a list of authorities that have rebilled across all three schemes.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 09/10/2017 10:26:54 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

760830

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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 made an assessment of the effect on the timescale for local authorities to grant business rate reliefs detailed in Budget 2017 of the readiness of software used by local authorities in advance of making that commitment; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	105413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>Following the Chancellor’s announcement of the Business Rates Relief Schemes at the Budget, on 9 March the Department published a Business Rates Information Letter to local authorities. This provided information on each of the three schemes including draft allocations for the discretionary relief scheme and guidance on the Supporting Small Business Scheme. On 10 March the Department began discussions with a group of local authorities and the main software suppliers to discuss the implementation of the schemes and system requirements.</p><p>The Department has continued to engage local authorities and software suppliers, encouraging authorities to speed up implementation and publishing the technical guidance for the Supporting Small Business Scheme and Pubs Relief Scheme on 20 June. However, local authorities have overall responsibility for awarding and maintaining contracts with their software providers and for ensuring value for money. While authorities have been able to manually identify eligible businesses for the Supporting Small Business Scheme since March, some authorities chose to wait for a full software update that enabled them to automate this process.</p><p>I met software providers on 12 July and agreed that the software update would be provided to authorities by 21 August at the latest. The update was released by all of the main software providers by this date. On 14 September I made a Written Ministerial Statement, which set out the good progress made by some authorities and a commitment to publish a list of authorities that have rebilled across all three schemes. This has now been published and is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-schemes-2017-rebilling-progress" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-schemes-2017-rebilling-progress</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/10/2017 12:48:26 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

760211

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
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 assessment he has made of the effect of charging full rates on vacant business premises in economically deprived areas.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	105039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>No assessment has been undertaken on the effect of charging full rates on vacant business premises in economically deprived areas. However, regulations made under the Local Government Finance Act 1988, provide exemptions from empty property rates if a property is unoccupied for 3 or (6 months if it qualifies as an industrial property).</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 09/10/2017 10:24:17 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds