Business Rates

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 July 1985.

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Photo of Michael Fallon Michael Fallon , Darlington 12:00, 10 July 1985

Is my right hon. Friend aware that a department store in Darlington has a rates bill this year of over £250,000, that many smaller businesses have to pay rates of over £100 a week and that high rates in the north are not only driving businesses away from the region but are dissuading them from coming to the north?