Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 12 February 2009.
What is the Minister's latest assessment of the number of jobs currently being lost from businesses located in British ports, as a result of the appalling and wholly unjust decision to levy three years of business rates retrospectively on port tenants, many of whom are now being pushed to the brink of insolvency, as a result of their new and unexpected tax liabilities?