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<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>
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