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710676

registered interest
date	13/03/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Tickets: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Government's response to the Waterson review, published on 13 March 2017, how he plans to make funds available to National Trading Standards to enforce legislation relevant to secondary ticketing websites.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>In line with the Government’s response to the Waterson review, National Trading Standards and Trading Standards Scotland have been tasked with investigating potential enforcement cases against sellers and secondary ticketing websites that do not comply with legislation from within their forthcoming annual budgets.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 20/03/2017 16:59:24 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

709951

registered interest
date	10/03/2017
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	Music Venues: 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, if he will encourage local authorities to use the funds for discretionary relief on business rates to help music venues.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has put in place a £3.6 billion package of transitional relief to help businesses facing an increase in business rates. The Budget on 8 March set out a further package to support businesses that may have difficulty paying business rates, including a £1000 discount for eligible pubs with a rateable value of less than £100,000. My Department will shortly publish a consultation setting out proposals for the eligibility criteria for this discount. Additionally, £110 million will be available to assist those ratepayers losing small business rates relief or rural rate relief as a result of revaluation.</p><p>The Government is also making available a £300 million discretionary relief fund over the next four years to enable local authorities to help individual businesses that are facing increased rates bills. Decisions on how this discretionary fund should be distributed will be for local authorities. A consultation on this scheme is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/598261/Discretionary_Business_Rates_Relief_Scheme_consultation.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/598261/Discretionary_Business_Rates_Relief_Scheme_consultation.pdf</a></p><p>All of these schemes can be applied to music venues, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 67410 67411 67412 question first answered 16/03/2017 09:22:38 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 40572 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

709953

registered interest
date	10/03/2017
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	Public Houses: 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, when consultation to determine eligibility for the £1,000 business rate discount for public houses announced in paragraph 4.5 of the Spring Budget 2017 will conclude.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has put in place a £3.6 billion package of transitional relief to help businesses facing an increase in business rates. The Budget on 8 March set out a further package to support businesses that may have difficulty paying business rates, including a £1000 discount for eligible pubs with a rateable value of less than £100,000. My Department will shortly publish a consultation setting out proposals for the eligibility criteria for this discount. Additionally, £110 million will be available to assist those ratepayers losing small business rates relief or rural rate relief as a result of revaluation.</p><p>The Government is also making available a £300 million discretionary relief fund over the next four years to enable local authorities to help individual businesses that are facing increased rates bills. Decisions on how this discretionary fund should be distributed will be for local authorities. A consultation on this scheme is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/598261/Discretionary_Business_Rates_Relief_Scheme_consultation.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/598261/Discretionary_Business_Rates_Relief_Scheme_consultation.pdf</a></p><p>All of these schemes can be applied to music venues, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 67411 67412 67413 question first answered 16/03/2017 09:22:38 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 40571 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

709954

registered interest
date	10/03/2017
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	Music Venues: 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 music venues will be eligible for the £1,000 business rate discount for public houses announced in paragraph 4.5 of the Spring Budget 2017.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has put in place a £3.6 billion package of transitional relief to help businesses facing an increase in business rates. The Budget on 8 March set out a further package to support businesses that may have difficulty paying business rates, including a £1000 discount for eligible pubs with a rateable value of less than £100,000. My Department will shortly publish a consultation setting out proposals for the eligibility criteria for this discount. Additionally, £110 million will be available to assist those ratepayers losing small business rates relief or rural rate relief as a result of revaluation.</p><p>The Government is also making available a £300 million discretionary relief fund over the next four years to enable local authorities to help individual businesses that are facing increased rates bills. Decisions on how this discretionary fund should be distributed will be for local authorities. A consultation on this scheme is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/598261/Discretionary_Business_Rates_Relief_Scheme_consultation.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/598261/Discretionary_Business_Rates_Relief_Scheme_consultation.pdf</a></p><p>All of these schemes can be applied to music venues, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 67410 67412 67413 question first answered 16/03/2017 09:22:38 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 40569 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

709955

registered interest
date	10/03/2017
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	Music Venues: 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 support his Department is providing to music venues whose business rates are increasing from 1 April 2017.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has put in place a £3.6 billion package of transitional relief to help businesses facing an increase in business rates. The Budget on 8 March set out a further package to support businesses that may have difficulty paying business rates, including a £1000 discount for eligible pubs with a rateable value of less than £100,000. My Department will shortly publish a consultation setting out proposals for the eligibility criteria for this discount. Additionally, £110 million will be available to assist those ratepayers losing small business rates relief or rural rate relief as a result of revaluation.</p><p>The Government is also making available a £300 million discretionary relief fund over the next four years to enable local authorities to help individual businesses that are facing increased rates bills. Decisions on how this discretionary fund should be distributed will be for local authorities. A consultation on this scheme is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/598261/Discretionary_Business_Rates_Relief_Scheme_consultation.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/598261/Discretionary_Business_Rates_Relief_Scheme_consultation.pdf</a></p><p>All of these schemes can be applied to music venues, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 67410 67411 67413 question first answered 16/03/2017 09:22:37 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 40570 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest