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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

772449

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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much of the four-year £435 million package of support for business ratepayers following the 2017 business rate revaluation has been spent; and how much has been used to support bookshops.
tabling member printed	Baroness Rebuck
uin	HL2142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Billing authorities are responsible for rebilling eligible businesses due to receive support as part of the £435 million package of funding announced by the Chancellor at the Budget. The Department for Communities and Local Government will be collecting data on the amount spent by billing authorities during the financial year 2017/18 at the end of that period as part of the normal process of reconciling local authority relief payments. On 13 October, the Government published a list of authorities that indicated that they had begun to rebill businesses on each of the three schemes. This list will be updated (attached)regularly, at:</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 printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 30/10/2017 15:41:48 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 171030 List of authorities updated.pdf title Rebilling progress
tabling member	4332 label Biography information for Baroness Rebuck

772451

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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to extend the scheme providing a £1,000 discount to pubs with a rateable value of less than £100,000; and, if so, whether this plan will cover bookshops.
tabling member printed	Baroness Rebuck
uin	HL2144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to extend the pubs' relief scheme. However, the Government has taken action to support small business. It put in place a £3.6 billion package of transitional relief and permanently doubled small business rate relief meaning 600,000 small businesses will pay no business rates at all.</p><p>In addition, at the Spring Budget the Government announced £110 million support to help ratepayers losing small business rates relief and rural rate relief – this will ensure increases in their bills this year are capped at £600.</p><p>It also included a £300 million discretionary relief fund for local authorities to design their own schemes. Subject to meeting the criteria for local discretionary schemes, bookshops may also be eligible for support from this fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 26/10/2017 14:12:52 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4332 label Biography information for Baroness Rebuck

772452

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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to provide guidance on the use of the £300 million fund for local authorities to distribute to help businesses facing higher business rate bills; and, if so, whether this guidance will cover support for bookshops.
tabling member printed	Baroness Rebuck
uin	HL2145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government will not be providing guidance on the use of the £300 million fund. Under the terms of the £300 million discretionary fund, billing authorities are responsible for designing the criteria of their local schemes and these criteria may include bookshops.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 30/10/2017 17:26:41 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4332 label Biography information for Baroness Rebuck

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