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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1667621", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1667621/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government froze the business rates multiplier for a third consecutive year in 2023-24, a tax cut worth £9.3 billion to business over the next 5 years. Overall, the Government has taken action to hold the tax rate steady, protecting businesses from inflationary pressures over the last three years at a cost of £14.5 billion to the Exchequer.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Decisions on future business rates support will be made in due course.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what business rates will be in each of the next five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4737", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dehenna Davison"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1665909", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1665909/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government has taken action to hold the tax rate steady over the last three years, protecting businesses from inflationary pressures at a cost of £14.5 billion to the Exchequer.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Most recently, the Government froze the business rates multiplier for a third consecutive year in 2023-24, a tax cut worth £9.3 billion to business over the next 5 years. This will support all ratepayers, large and small, with the revaluation in 2023, meaning bills are 6 per cent lower, before any reliefs or supplements are applied, than without the freeze.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Decisions on the level of the multiplier for 2024-25 will be made in due course.<\/p>"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-10-18", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Business Rates"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of retaining the business rates multiplier at the current level for the 2024-25 financial year.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4066", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Priti Patel"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1658478", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1658478/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>At the Autumn Statement 2022, the Government announced a freeze to the business rates multiplier for 2023-24, a tax cut worth £9.3 billion over the next five years. This was the third consecutive year the multiplier has been frozen, protecting businesses from inflationary pressures at an overall cost of £14.5 billion.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Business rates are an essential form of funding for local government to provide vital public services.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Government keeps all taxes under review.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the business rate multiplier in England and Wales.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1796", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Taylor of Warwick"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1639825/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The recent revaluation of business rates, which came into effect on 1 April 2023, ensures rateable values, and therefore bills, more accurately reflect current market values. The Government is legislating for more frequent revaluations, from every 5 years to every 3 years, a key stakeholder ask which will permanently make the system fairer and more responsive for all ratepayers.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Government has also announced a package worth £13.6 billion over the next five years to support businesses with the revaluation, including:<\/p><ul><li>a freeze to the business rates multiplier for 2023-2024, a tax cut worth £9.3 billion over the next 5 years, meaning all bills are 6 per cent lower than without the freeze;<\/li><li>an increased 75 per cent relief for retail, hospitality and leisure properties, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2023-24. This is a tax cut worth over £2 billion for around 230,000 RHL businesses, to support the high street and protect small shops;<\/li><li>an Exchequer funded Transitional Relief scheme worth £1.6 billion to protect an estimated 700,000 ratepayers facing bill increases due to increases in rateable value;<\/li><li>£500 million of support over the next three years through a new Supporting Small Business scheme. This will cap bill increases to £50 per month for businesses losing some or all of their Small Business or Rural Rate Relief due to the revaluation.<\/li><\/ul><p> <\/p><p>Regarding small businesses, the Government has continued its generous Small Business Rate Relief scheme which means over a third of properties (720,000) pay no business rates at all, with an additional 76,000 in the taper benefitting from reduced bills.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4399", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Victoria Atkins"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the extent to which business rates applicable to (a) small and (b) large businesses which mainly operate through physical premises adequately reflect their business costs.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1591", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Tim Farron"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1609814", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1609814/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Non-Domestic Rating (NDR) Bill, currently before the House, delivers a substantial set of reforms to the business rates system announced at the conclusion of the 2020 Review of Business Rates. The measures in the Bill will make business rates fairer for taxpayers, incentivise investment and decarbonisation, and improve the administration of the tax.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The NDR Bill delivers:<\/p><ul><li>More frequent revaluations, from 5-yearly to 3-yearly, to make the business rates system fairer and more responsive for ratepayers<\/li><li>A new Improvement Relief to incentivise businesses to invest in their properties, and a Heat Networks Relief to encourage green investment<\/li><li>A reform to Transitional Relief to remove the requirement for revenue neutrality<\/li><li>Increased transparency in how rateable values are calculated<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>HMRC\u2019s Digitalising Business Rates programme<\/li><li>Administrative reforms to make the system more efficient<\/li><\/ul>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4399", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Victoria Atkins"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-04-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to modernise the business rates system.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4410", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Julian Knight"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Julian Knight"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1604778/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>OBR forecasts are produced independently of ministers, objectively, transparently and impartially, as set out clearly by law. The spring forecast is available at: <a href=\"https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/\" target=\"_blank\">https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p>For the spring forecast, the OBR have been engaged with the Treasury in the normal way and there have been regular discussions of the economic and fiscal outlook.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>As set out in the Memorandum of Understanding between HM Treasury and the OBR, the forecast process involves the OBR producing multiple draft iterations of the forecasts which it shares with the Chancellor.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>With regard to business rates, the 5-year forecast takes account of the Government\u2019s £13.6 billion package of support announced at Autumn Statement 2022, and annual CPI indexation of the multiplier.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Future decisions regarding business rates will be taken in line with the normal Budget process.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility of November 2022, what recent discussions he has had with that Office on the factors behind the projected increase in revenue from business rates.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4069", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Peter Aldous"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1603642", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1603642/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>At Autumn Statement 2022, the Government announced a package of changes and tax cuts worth £13.6 billion over the next five years. The package contains new measures to reduce the burden of business rates, including a freeze in the multiplier, extended relief for high street businesses, and targeted support for small businesses.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>As part of the 2020 Business Rates Review, the Government committed to more frequent revaluations from 2023, which represents significant reform of the system and will ensure that liabilities are more responsive to changing market conditions. The Government is also permanently scrapping downwards caps from Transitional Relief, so that businesses will see the full benefit of falling bills immediately, meeting a key business ask. Alongside the Government\u2019s commitment to more frequent revaluations this represents significant reform and will make the system fairer and more responsive for all ratepayers.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4061", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Bill Esterson"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Bill Esterson"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4069", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Peter Aldous"}
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