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Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention) and (Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 - Motion to Approve (20 Mar 2017)

Lord Young of Cookham: My Lords, the business rates retention scheme, which was introduced in 2013-14, allows local government in England as a whole to retain 50% of the business rates it collects locally. These regulations change the regulatory framework governing the day-to-day operation of the business rates retention scheme. The changes, which are highly technical, are necessary, first, to ensure that the...

Written Answers — Department for Communities and Local Government: Non-domestic Rates and Revenue Support Grant (10 May 2016)

Marcus Jones: Our business rates tax cuts provide significant support to local businesses. The Small Business Rate Relief measure announced at the Budget which starts in 2017-18 will mean 600,000 of the smallest businesses will not have to pay business rates. We will compensate local authorities, in full, for the loss of income as a result of this measure, in the same way as we have done for every other...

Written Answers — Treasury: Children: Day Care (27 Feb 2020)

Jesse Norman: The Government appreciates that business rates can represent a high fixed cost for small businesses. Childcare providers may be eligible for Small Business Rates Relief, where the smallest businesses pay no business rates at all. All childcare providers will benefit from the change from RPI to CPI indexation of business rates. The Government will be conducting a fundamental review of...

Written Answers — Treasury: Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates (28 Apr 2021)

Jesse Norman: Business rates are an important source of funding for key local services such as adult social care and children’s services. Small businesses may be eligible for Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR). Properties with a rateable value of £12,000 or less will pay no business rates under SBRR. For properties with a rateable value above £12,000 and less than £15,000, the SBRR will taper...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Business Rates ( 1 Jul 2022)

Robin Walker: The department has done no comparative assessment between the levels of business rates paid by state schools and independent schools which have charitable status. Currently, 80% mandatory rates relief is applied to academies, voluntary aided schools, and foundation schools. The majority of special schools also receive full relief because they make provision for children with a disability. In...

Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Non-domestic Rates (11 Sep 2018)

Rishi Sunak: In 2020/21 the Government aims to increase local government’s retention of business rates from 50 per cent to 75 per cent. Increasing the level of business rates retention to 100 per cent remains the Government’s long-term ambition. That is why, this year we are operating 100 per cent business rates retention pilots in 16 areas across the country. Next year we will also pilot 75 per cent...

Written Answers — Treasury: Public Houses: Business Rates (17 Oct 2022)

Richard Fuller: With the conclusion of the Business Rates Review, the Government has delivered meaningful reform and tax cuts worth almost £7 billion to business over the next five years. Businesses in the retail, hospitality, and leisure sector, including pubs, currently receive a tax cut worth almost £1.7 billion in 2022-23. Eligible properties receive 50 per cent off their business rates bill, up to a...

Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Non-domestic Rates (25 Mar 2019)

Rishi Sunak: The business rates retention scheme is yielding strong results. Local authorities estimate that in 2019-20 they will keep around £2.5 billion in business rates growth. The Government is committed to increasing business rates retention and is aiming to move to 75 per cent retention of business rates from 2020/21. The Government will continue to work with the sector to identify other...

Scottish Parliament: Fife Economy (Support) ( 9 Oct 2013)

John Swinney: On an annual basis, the business rates relief package over which the Government presides saves businesses in Scotland about £570 million in reduced business rates. In Fife, more than 5,500 business properties currently benefit from the small business bonus scheme and have saved almost £36 million in business rates taxation since the Government introduced the scheme. By putting in place a...

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates (20 May 2020)

Richard Burgon: ...Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 41552, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of businesses and (b) value of business rates paid by (i) businesses in shared offices, (ii) regular market traders who do not have their own business rates assessment, (iii) B&Bs that pay council tax instead of business rates...

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Small Business Grants Fund: Coronavirus ( 5 May 2020)

Paul Scully: Only businesses with their own assessment for business rates and which are eligible for either Small Business Rates Relief (SBRR) or Rural Rates Relief (RRR) will be eligible for the Small Business Grant Fund. Businesses which are not ratepayers in their own right are not eligible. The Government understands that for some shared spaces and service offices, individual users may not have...

Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day] — Zero-hours Contracts: High Streets (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Danczuk: Business rates are clearly mentioned in the motion, and Labour Front Benchers have made it clear that there will be a review of business rates under a Labour Government. Postponing the revaluation of business rates does nothing to help small businesses. Because of this postponement, retailers in Rochdale are subsidising retailers on Regent street in London. That is unacceptable. The...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Non-domestic Rates (30 Mar 2022)

Robin Walker: Local authorities receive funding for business rates through the national funding formula, to meet the full costs of schools’ business rates. This means the costs for local authority-maintained schools’ and academies’ business rates are currently covered by the department and there is no disadvantage to state-funded schools from paying full rates, or advantage from receiving rates...

Written Answers — Treasury: Non-domestic Rates (24 Feb 2021)

Jesse Norman: The Government has invited representations from stakeholders on various aspects of the business rates system through the fundamental review of business rates. This year, due to the direct adverse effects of COVID-19, the Government has provided an unprecedented business rates holiday for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure properties worth over £10 billion. The Government has also...

Written Answers — Department for Communities and Local Government: Non-domestic Rates (13 Jul 2017)

Marcus Jones: Information about local authority income from business rates is published on the Department's website at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/national -non-domestic-rates-local-authority-level-data Local variations in business rates are taken into account through the way in which the local government finance regime redistributes income between authorities....

[Martin Caton in the Chair] — Business Rates (30 Oct 2012)

Ann Coffey: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Caton. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Rochdale (Simon Danczuk) on securing this important debate on business rates and on his comprehensive analysis of the effect that increased business rates will have on our high street. Like many towns, Stockport is being squeezed extremely hard at the moment. We have one of the highest...

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Local Government Finance ( 5 Dec 2011)

Bob Neill: This Government are determined to support businesses—large and small—to support growth and build a stronger economy. In support of those aims, the Government announced two important business rates measures in the autumn statement. We will: double the levels of relief available to small business ratepayers for a further six months on top of the existing two-year scheme; and enable business...

Taxation: Beer and Pubs — [Albert Owen in the Chair] (31 Oct 2017)

Toby Perkins: I will finish with this. We have spoken a lot about beer duty and VAT, but it is crucial that the issue of business rates is addressed in the Budget. Every member of the Conservative party who stood in the 2015 election stood on a manifesto of a comprehensive review of business rates. That seemed to disappear from the 2017 manifesto, but the issue of business rates is crucial. We have the...

7. 7. UKIP Cymru Debate: Business Rates (11 Oct 2017)

...NDM6526 Caroline Jones To propose that the National Assembly for Wales: 1. Believes that: a) small businesses constitute the economic and social heart of the Welsh high street but that the current business rates regime significantly disadvantages retailers in small towns and cities; b) business rates are inherently inequitable because they bear little, if any, relation to business...

Business and Trade: Small Businesses: Growth (18 May 2023)

Kevin Hollinrake: We would all like to reform business rates. When people in my constituency hear about Labour’s plans to scrap business rates, the question I always get is, “Where is the money coming from?” Business rates raise £22 billion in England alone. I have heard Labour’s plans to scrap business rates. Which taxes will be increased to make up that shortfall? That is the question. We are...


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