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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/517381/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<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\u2019t 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>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/517385/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<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\u2019t 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>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/517386/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<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\u2019t 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>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/517389/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<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 \u2018All Auths\u2019 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\u2019s 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>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much business rate revenue was reallocated to (a) shire counties and (b) district councils in England through the system of top-ups and tariffs in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/517393/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<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 \u2018All Auths\u2019 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\u2019s 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>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "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.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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