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date	22/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Houses: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will undertake a review into the effect of business rates on traditional pubs compared with new small bars.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	211304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>Pubs and licensed premises are valued for business rates by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) using ‘Fair Maintainable Trade’, a widely-established method. The VOA’s valuation guide has been agreed with the pubs sector.</p><p> </p><p>Pubs and bars will benefit from the business rates discount of one third for small retailers from April 2019. This is part of our £1.5bn support package for the high street that was announced at Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>All ratepayers are benefitting from recent rates cuts worth more than £13bn in total over the next five years. They include switching from RPI to CPI indexation, making Small Business Rate Relief more generous so that 655,000 of the smallest businesses pay no rates, and providing a £1,000 relief for small and medium pubs in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Budget 2018 also announced a freeze on beer duty, making a typical pint 2p lower than it would otherwise have been.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 30/01/2019 17:02:17 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

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date	21/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judicial Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many judicial review cases his Department has unsuccessfully intervened since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	211304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The purpose of an intervention in a judicial review should be to help the court decide the case.</p><p>Details of interventions made by this department since 2010 are not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 24/10/2014 13:43:52 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter