Business Rate Appeals - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:45 pm on 25 February 2019.

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Photo of Lord Naseby Lord Naseby Conservative 2:45, 25 February 2019

Is my noble friend aware that this review is not before time, in that well over 10,000 appeals are bogged down in the agency at the moment? The challenge element does not work because the portal crashes; the check element does not work because it cannot be edited or amended. Against that background, is it not extraordinary that the agency allows all the retailers I am talking about, let alone other businesses, to incur huge costs in professional advice and have their cash flows adversely affected? Rather than having it at the end of 2019, I urge my noble friend to start the review on 1 March 2019.