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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

1003848

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
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, whether the business rates relief for properties announced in Budget 2018 will apply to premises in planning use class D2.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	189620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2018 answer text <p>At the Budget the Government announced a one third discount off business rate bills for high streets and town centres worth almost £900 million. The discount will be available, subject to state aid, to retail properties with a rateable value of less than £51,000 such as shops, restaurants, cafes and drinking establishments. We will publish guidance shortly to help local authorities determine eligibility and implement the discount.</p><p>Since 2016 the Government has announced a raft of measures to support business, including permanently doubling Small Business Rate Relief from 50 per cent to 100 per cent for eligible businesses, and raising the threshold for 100 per cent relief from £6,000 to £12,000. As a result, over 655,000 small businesses – occupiers of a third of all properties – pay no business rates at all. In addition, the Government brought forward to April 2018 the switch in the annual indexation of business rates from RPI to the main measure of inflation, currently CPI, which will be a saving for all ratepayers.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 16/11/2018 13:33:49 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1024815

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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, pursuant to the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement, what process was used to choose the 15 local authority areas that will pilot the 75 per cent business rate retention in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	202143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>All applications for the 2019-20 business rates retention pilot programme were assessed against the criteria that was laid out in the ‘Invitation to Local Authorities in England to pilot 75 per cent Business Rates Retention in 2019/20’, published in July 2018.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/12/2018 14:23:38 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1041423

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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, how much private (a) schools and (b) hospitals claimed in business rate relief in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	208389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information about the value of business rates reliefs split by type of business.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/01/2019 13:10:10 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1050168

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities to expand the business rate base in deprived communities.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	213336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>In 2020/21 the Government aims to increase local government’s retention of business rates from 50 per cent to 75 per cent. As local authorities will retain more business rates, individual local authorities will also be able to keep a bigger share of growth in their business rates. This will provide an incentive for all local authorities to grow their business rates.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 04/02/2019 16:00:32 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1055919

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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, what estimate he has made of the amount that he (a) has allocated and (b) will allocate to each local authority area from the £10 billion of business rates support.
tabling member constituency	Morecambe and Lunesdale
tabling member printed	David Morris
uin	217583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has introduced a range of business rates reforms and measures in England estimated to be worth over £13 billion between 2019-20 and 2023-24. It is not possible to accurately estimate support at a local authority level.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 11/02/2019 17:11:37 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4135 label Biography information for David Morris

1056720

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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, what steps the Government is taking in conjunction with local authorities to ensure that eligible businesses benefit from the forthcoming reduction in business rates as soon as that reduction comes into force.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	218341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with local authorities to implement the retail discount announced at the Budget. In November the Department issued guidance to local authorities and will be providing new burdens funding to meet the costs of implementation. MHCLG will shortly be writing to authorities to remind them of the need to grant the relief to eligible businesses from April 2019 and to do all they can to ensure that businesses are aware of the support available.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 13/02/2019 17:24:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1091040

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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, when all local authorities will retain 100 per cent of business rates.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
uin	233477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The business rates retention scheme is yielding strong results. Local authorities estimate that in 2019-20 they will keep around £2.5 billion in business rates growth. The Government is committed to increasing business rates retention and is aiming to move to 75 per cent retention of business rates from 2020/21. The Government will continue to work with the sector to identify other opportunities to further increase business rates retention when it is right to do so.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 25/03/2019 17:13:06 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1092606

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
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, what plans the Government has to lower business rates.
tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
uin	235353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>Since 2016, Government has announced a range of business rates reforms and measures. These include raising the threshold for Small Business Rate Relief, linking the multiplier to CPI rather than RPI inflation, a new retail discount worth an estimated £1 billion, and a range of other smaller reliefs. In total, these measures are estimated to be worth over £13 billion between 2019-20 and 2023-24.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 27/03/2019 10:54:30 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1110947

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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, what steps the Department its taking to ensure the affordability of business rates.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	243410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>Since Budget 2016 the Government has introduced a range of business rates measures in England, worth over £13 billion over the next five years. These include doubling Small Business Rate Relief from 50 per cent to 100 per cent for eligible businesses and raising the threshold for 100 per cent relief from £6,000 to £12,000. As a result, over 655,000 small businesses –a third of all rateable properties – pay no business rates at all. We have also switched the annual indexation of business rates from the retail price index to the consumer price index, representing a cut in business rates every year. Switching to CPI will help all ratepayers and save them over £6 billion over the next five years. The retail discount announced at the Budget provides eligible retailers with a third off their bills for two years from April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/04/2019 14:24:25 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord