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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

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

759196

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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 proportion of the £300 million discretionary rate relief fund to support businesses has been issued to ratepayers.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	9809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Many local authorities have made good progress in implementing their local discretionary schemes and have published the details of their eligibility criteria. Further to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on the 14 September on the progress of the Business Rates relief schemes announced at the Budget, I wrote to authorities encouraging them to speed up implementation. My Department will publish a list of authorities which have rebilled, shortly.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 9808 question first answered 09/10/2017 15:47:58 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 11886 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

759198

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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, which local authorities have published details of the eligibility criteria for the £300 million discretionary relief fund to support businesses with increased rates bills; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	9808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Many local authorities have made good progress in implementing their local discretionary schemes and have published the details of their eligibility criteria. Further to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on the 14 September on the progress of the Business Rates relief schemes announced at the Budget, I wrote to authorities encouraging them to speed up implementation. My Department will publish a list of authorities which have rebilled, shortly.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 9809 question first answered 09/10/2017 15:47:58 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 11885 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams