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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of businesses that were eligible for business rates relief in the 2023-24 financial year are no longer eligible in the 2024-25 financial year.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4866", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Alexander Stafford"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether there is a cap on the maximum amount of business rates relief that can be applied under provisions relating to subsidy controls.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4772", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Kenny MacAskill"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1674594", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1674594/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>At Autumn Statement 2023, the government announced it will extend the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure relief scheme at 75 per cent, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2024-25. Around 230,000 retail, hospitality and leisure properties will be eligible for this relief, a tax cut worth nearly £2.4 billion.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the 75% reduction in business rates offered by the Retail, Hospitality, and Leisure relief scheme to cover the 2024-25 tax year.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1667744", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1667744/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>At Autumn Statement 2022 the Government announced an increased 75% 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.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Decisions on future business rates support will be made in due course.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to extend the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme beyond the current deadline.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3930", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Caroline Lucas"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1665908", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1665908/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, including:<\/p><ul><li>a freeze to the business rates multiplier for 2023-24, a tax cut worth £9.3 billion over the next 5 years, meaning all bills are 6% lower than without the freeze;<\/li><li>an increased 75% relief for Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) 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><\/ul><ul><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. The Government has announced that it will permanently scrap \u2018downwards caps\u2019 which had restricted falling bills in previous schemes. This will benefit around 300,000 ratepayers who will see their full bill decrease from April 2023.<\/li><li>providing over £500 million of support over the next three years with a new Supporting Small Business scheme. This will cap bill increases to £50 per month (£600 per year) for businesses losing some or all of their Small Business or Rural Rate Relief due to the revaluation.<\/li><\/ul><p> <\/p><p>Decisions on future business rates support will be made in due course.<\/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 he has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing further business rate reliefs to support (a) small businesses, (b) other businesses, (c) high streets and town centres and (d) local authorities.", "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/1653588", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1653588/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The 2023-2024 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) Business Rates Relief scheme provides eligible, occupied, retail, hospitality and leisure properties with a 75 per cent relief, up to a cash cap limit of £110,000 per business. This was an expansion from the 50 per cent rate in 2022-2023. Currently, around 230,000 properties are eligible for this relief, representing a tax cut worth over £2 billion.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Businesses may also benefit from other business rates measures, including the multiplier freeze, and the Supporting Small Business scheme, which caps bill increases at £600 per year for businesses losing some or all of their eligibility for Small Business or Rural Rate Relief due to the recent revaluation.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Any future announcements regarding business rates relief will be made at a fiscal event.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) feasibility and (b) potential merits of extending the retail, hospitality and leisure business rates relief scheme beyond 31 March 2024 for businesses in business improvement districts.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Business Rates Relief for Mitigation of Lost of SBRR Grant.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1542502/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government has announced a package of support worth £13.6 billion for businesses over the next five years. Together with the revaluation, this package ensures bills will more accurately reflect current market values whilst protecting businesses from large bill increases.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sector will receive a tax cut worth over £2 billion in 2023-24. Eligible properties will receive 75% off their business rates bill, up to a cap of £110,000 per business, an increase from the 50% relief last year.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Government has also committed to freezing the multiplier for a further year, which is a tax cut worth £9.3 billion to businesses over the next 5 years and means all bills are 6% lower, before any reliefs or supplements, than without the freeze.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>To protect businesses from large bill increases on 1 April 2023, the Government announced a 3 year Exchequer funded Transitional Relief (TR) scheme worth £1.6 billion. This will support around 700,000 ratepayers in England, as they transition to their new bills. The reformed TR scheme will also allow ratepayers whose rateable values have fallen to benefit from the full reduction in their business rates bills on 1 April by abolishing downwards caps, delivering a key stakeholder ask.<\/p><p>An extended Supporting Small Business (SSB) scheme will provide over £500 million of support over the next three years to businesses losing all or some of their Small Business or Rural Rate Relief, due to the 2023 revaluation, at £50 per month. This is worth five times more than the previous scheme, and will support five times as many properties.<\/p>"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-11-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his to continue business rates relief beyond the 2022-2023 financial year.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4788", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Fleur Anderson"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1417262", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1417262/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>According to the national non-domestic rates data collected by local authorities, the cost of the retail, hospitality, and leisure relief was £11.1 billion in 2020-21, and is expected to be £5.8 billion in 2021-22. This data is published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and can be found here: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-non-domestic-rates-collected-by-councils\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-non-domestic-rates-collected-by-councils<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p>This support means that eligible properties paid no business rates for 15 months from 1 April 2020. Additionally, due to the 66 per cent capped relief which took effect on 1 July 2021, over 90 per cent of eligible businesses will see a 75 per cent reduction in their business rates bill across this entire financial year to next April.<\/p>"}
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