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registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, which criteria were used to determine the allocation of the latest round of business rates retention pilots.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	125346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>All applications to become a 100 per cent business rates retention pilot in 2018/19 were assessed under the criteria laid out in the ‘Invitation to Local Authorities in England to pilot 100% Business Rates Retention in 2018/19 and to pioneer new pooling and tier-split models’, published on 1 September 2017:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654936/Pilots_1819_Prospectus.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654936/Pilots_1819_Prospectus.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 01/02/2018 15:22:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

810192

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of the effect on high streets of changes to business rates.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	120658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Valuations for the purposes of rating are carried out independently by the Valuation Office Agency. The majority of ratepayers have seen no change or a fall in their bills. However, for those facing increases as a result of the 2017 revaluation we have provided a £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme.</p><p>At the 2016 Budget, the Chancellor announced the biggest ever cut in business rates – worth nearly £9 billion across the next five years, taking 600,000 small businesses out of paying rates. In the Spring 2017 Budget, we announced £435 million support to businesses seeing increases in rates bills. In the Autumn 2017 Budget, the Chancellor announced that he will bring forward the switch of the annual indexation of business rates from RPI to the CPI by two years, which is worth £4.1 billion by 2023.</p><p>The Government is committed to supporting small and medium size businesses on our high streets. Since 2010, we have given over £18 million to struggling town centres through the High Streets Innovation Fund and launched successful initiatives such as “Love Your Local Market”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 15/01/2018 17:10:47 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

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

801214

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to protect local authorities from the loss of business rate income that has been identified as a consequence of bringing forward CPI uprating in the 2017 Autumn Budget policy costings.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL3871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lord to my answer of 7 December to PQ HL 3516.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 13/12/2017 16:53:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

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

794198

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, and to what extent, they intend to compensate local authorities for the loss of £2.3 billion over the next five years resulting from their decision that business rates will increase by CPI rather than RPI.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL3516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>Autumn Budget 2017 announced that the planned switch in the indexation of business rates from RPI to CPI will be brought forward by two years to April 2018. Central government will fully compensate local authorities for income lost as a result of this measure.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 07/12/2017 16:00:39 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham