Power to reduce non-domestic rating multipliers

Part of Local Government Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 9 February 2017.

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Photo of David Mackintosh David Mackintosh Conservative, Northampton South 12:00, 9 February 2017

I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman agrees that this is taking place all the time in lots of areas with lots of different authorities. In my experience, we had a pooling arrangement, with eight local authorities all looking at business rates. In terms of the enterprise zone in Northampton, there were 11 authorities across the south-east midlands local enterprise partnership area, all of which had to co-operate and talk about business rates together.