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517378

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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 estimate he has made of the net value of business rate revenue reallocated to all unitary authorities in England except those in the Manchester and Liverpool city regions through the system of top-ups and tariffs in the current financial year; and what the net value of such revenue reallocated to all such unitary authorities was in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Marie Rimmer
uin	36469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The 2015-16 business rates tariffs and top-ups for all authorities can be found on the gov.uk website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/400329/Key_Information_for_Local_Authorities.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/400329/Key_Information_for_Local_Authorities.xlsx</a> in Column BH of the ‘All Auths’ worksheet.</p><p>The 2016-17 and 2017-18 business rates tariffs and top-ups for all authorities can be found on the gov.uk website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499148/Key_info_for_local_authorities.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499148/Key_info_for_local_authorities.xlsx</a> in Column H of the appropriate year’s worksheet.</p><p>As the Honourable Member will be aware, the Government has announced that by the end of this Parliament, local government will be able to keep 100 per cent of the business rates raised locally. This is an important part of our plan to take power out of Whitehall and return it to local government. The Government is currently working with the Local Government Association, and engaging directly with local authorities, to develop the detail of this change.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 36391 36392 36410 36465 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:57:13 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

517381

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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 his plans are to facilitate the pooling of business rate revenue following full devolution of business rates in (a) areas that are not covered by combined authorities and (b) other areas.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Marie Rimmer
uin	36468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The retention of business rates locally is an important part of our plan to take power out of Whitehall and return it to local government. This means we will no longer be taking local business rates income into Whitehall for redistribution as grant. All locally collected business rates will stay with local government.</p><p>We have already been clear that we will retain redistribution within the system. We recognise that we will need to redistribute to ensure councils don’t lose out merely because they currently collect less in rates.</p><p>The Government is currently working with the Local Government Association, and engaging directly with local authorities, to develop the detail of this change. This includes developing the mechanics of redistribution. As previously announced, we will consult later this year and implement this important change to the local government finance system by the end of this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 36463 36464 36467 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:58:21 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

517382

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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 Government's policy is on maintaining the net reallocation of business rate revenue to shire counties, districts and unitary authorities at broadly the present level in real terms following devolution of business rates.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Marie Rimmer
uin	36467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The retention of business rates locally is an important part of our plan to take power out of Whitehall and return it to local government. This means we will no longer be taking local business rates income into Whitehall for redistribution as grant. All locally collected business rates will stay with local government.</p><p>We have already been clear that we will retain redistribution within the system. We recognise that we will need to redistribute to ensure councils don’t lose out merely because they currently collect less in rates.</p><p>The Government is currently working with the Local Government Association, and engaging directly with local authorities, to develop the detail of this change. This includes developing the mechanics of redistribution. As previously announced, we will consult later this year and implement this important change to the local government finance system by the end of this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 36463 36464 36468 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:58:21 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

517385

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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 Government's plans are for consultation on the top-up and tariffs system that is set to operate once business rates have become fully devolved.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Marie Rimmer
uin	36463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The retention of business rates locally is an important part of our plan to take power out of Whitehall and return it to local government. This means we will no longer be taking local business rates income into Whitehall for redistribution as grant. All locally collected business rates will stay with local government.</p><p>We have already been clear that we will retain redistribution within the system. We recognise that we will need to redistribute to ensure councils don’t lose out merely because they currently collect less in rates.</p><p>The Government is currently working with the Local Government Association, and engaging directly with local authorities, to develop the detail of this change. This includes developing the mechanics of redistribution. As previously announced, we will consult later this year and implement this important change to the local government finance system by the end of this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 36464 36467 36468 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:58:21 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

517386

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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 timetable is for the development and publication of proposals on the top-up and tariffs system that is set to operate once business rates have become fully devolved.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Marie Rimmer
uin	36464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The retention of business rates locally is an important part of our plan to take power out of Whitehall and return it to local government. This means we will no longer be taking local business rates income into Whitehall for redistribution as grant. All locally collected business rates will stay with local government.</p><p>We have already been clear that we will retain redistribution within the system. We recognise that we will need to redistribute to ensure councils don’t lose out merely because they currently collect less in rates.</p><p>The Government is currently working with the Local Government Association, and engaging directly with local authorities, to develop the detail of this change. This includes developing the mechanics of redistribution. As previously announced, we will consult later this year and implement this important change to the local government finance system by the end of this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 36463 36467 36468 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:58:21 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

515754

registered interest
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

515245

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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 how much local authorities will be able to collect through business rates under the Government's devolution proposals in (a) East Yorkshire, (b) North Lincolnshire and (c) elsewhere.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	35369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government intends to move to 100% business rates retention in England by the end of this Parliament. We have confirmed that as part of the new system there will continue to be redistribution of local tax revenue between authorities and protections in place for authorities that see their business rates income fall significantly. Over the coming months we will be working with local government on the details of the scheme.</p><p>Ahead of final decisions, it is too early to assess what the impact will be on individual areas or authorities. However, based on their own estimates, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and North Lincolnshire Council expect to collect £106.9 million and £89.2 million in business rates respectively in 2016-17.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 03/05/2016 14:46:54 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

484333

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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, under what criteria local authorities will be compensated for the change in the updating of business rates from RPI to CPI.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	32161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>Our business rates tax cuts provide significant support to local businesses.</p><p>The Small Business Rate Relief measure announced at the Budget which starts in 2017-18 will mean 600,000 of the smallest businesses will not have to pay business rates. We will compensate local authorities, in full, for the loss of income as a result of this measure, in the same way as we have done for every other reduction to business rates we have made since the introduction of the business rates retention scheme.</p><p>In addition, from April 2020, the annual indexation of business rates will be changed from RPI to be consistent with the main measure of inflation, currently CPI. The impact on local authority revenues, post-2020, of this and the other changes announced at the Budget will be considered as part of the Government’s work with the sector on implementing 100 per cent business rate retention.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 11/04/2016 17:13:58 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

483307

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
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 what assessment they have made of the financial effect of the Budget announcement of changes to business rates relief on (1) local government across England, (2) councils in South Yorkshire, and (3) Sheffield City Council.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL7231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>These tax cuts provide significant support to local businesses. The Small Business Rate Relief measure announced at the Budget will mean 600,000 of the smallest businesses will not have to pay business rates.</p><p>Local authorities will be compensated in full for their loss of income as a result of these changes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/04/2016 15:20:24 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

480622

registered interest
date	18/03/2016
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, if he will estimate how much revenue will be accrued from business rates in each local authority in each financial year to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	31746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>Local authority estimates of business rates yield for 2016-17 are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/500899/NNDR1_2016-17_drop_down.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/500899/NNDR1_2016-17_drop_down.xlsx<br></a><br>Estimates for future years are not available.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 23/03/2016 17:32:49 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed