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Christine Jardine: ...yesterday’s Budget as helping small businesses, particularly in the hospitality sector, which is very hard hit in my constituency. One of the problems that many businesses tell us about is the business rates system. More businesses have failed in the past two and a half years than have been established. In Scotland, we often find that while the downsides of this Government’s policy are...
Ruth Cadbury: ...: pubs struggling with soaring energy costs, corner shops facing a crime spree, and manufacturers and exporters facing barriers to trading with Europe. This Budget offers them nothing—nothing on business rates, on improving trade or on skills. My constituents, taxpayers and users of public services as they are, assume that the Treasury understands basic economic concepts, including the...
Jeremy Hunt: .... Today, I have decided to extend the alcohol duty freeze until February 2025. That will benefit 38,000 pubs across the UK, on top of the £13,000 saving that a typical pub will get from the 75% business rates discount that I announced in the autumn. We value our hospitality industry. We are backing the great British pub. Another cost that families and businesses worry about is fuel. The...
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing business rate relief to premises which are transitioning to reached energy performance certification levels of C and above.
Mike Hedges: The local government settlement is just one of the parts of local government income, albeit the major part. Prior to the centralisation of business rates, local authorities used to raise a much higher proportion of their income locally, and I would like to see business rates return to local authorities. Councils get income via council tax, and councils also get income from fees and charges...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...firmly believes that supporting our small and medium-sized enterprise sector is essential towards creating a more dynamic and prosperous Welsh economy. It's regrettable that the decision to slash business rates relief will pile on the pressure for a sector that continues to feel the pinch of high energy prices and the aftershocks of the pandemic.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether there is a cap on the maximum amount of business rates relief that can be applied under provisions relating to subsidy controls.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the maximum level of Minimal Financial Assistance business rates relief was for local heat networks in each year since 2021.
Rishi Sunak: ...are the facts on the ground: the Labour-run Welsh NHS is performing the worst in the United Kingdom; small Welsh businesses, including pubs and restaurants, are facing a crippling rise in their business rates; and Welsh farmers are being decimated by the plans of the Welsh Labour Government. Those are the facts in Wales and we will continue to point them out at every opportunity.
Kevin Hollinrake: ...or to re-open the activation for those impacted by Storm Babet, it is worth noting that the Business Recovery Grant does not operate in isolation but as part of a package of support including business rates relief for SMEs.
Tom Giffard: ...10 venues had actually closed across Wales. But the Music Venue Trust is even more concerned about the future of the industry, and in particular the severe impact that the recently announced cuts to business rates relief will have on the sector. They told me that gross profits for the entire sector were £119,000 in 2023, but the proposed rate relief cut alone is thought to have cost them...
Julia Lopez: ...will make an important contribution to the sustainability of the press. Additionally, our support for the sector has included the delivery of a £2 million Future News Fund, the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and the BBC also supports the sector directly, through the £8m it spends...
Elizabeth Smith: ...the increases that have been made to public sector salaries, and it highlighted the position in hospitals. For the second year in a row, the Scottish Government received Barnett consequentials from business rates relief. Instead of that money being passed on to businesses in Scotland, it went into the health budget—much to the dismay, I may say, of many businesspeople. At the weekend, we...
Nigel Huddleston: ...incredibly valuable work and attract not only domestic visitors but visitors in their millions from around the world, who come and enjoy everything that we have to offer. Many Members have mentioned business rates. I have been lobbied by the ever-busy Kate Nicholls from UKHospitality; it sounds like she has been around quite a lot recently—and rightly so, because she represents such an...
Elizabeth Smith: ...more extensive than some of the recommendations that have been made by the Scottish Fiscal Commission. We do not know what the modelling process is. It is exactly the same for the proposed surtax on business rates. I come back to the stage 2 discussions, during which the cabinet secretary said that there had been no discussion about that as yet, because the evidence had not been put before...
Baroness Kramer: ...Policy certainty, instead of shifts in the wind, would attract investment. Reducing friction in our access to the EU market would attract investment. A focus on small businesses, including reforming business rates, would attract investment. In productivity terms, the Government have simply failed to take advantage of the digital revolution. Work practices have changed, but UK productivity...
Nigel Huddleston: ...school fees. Labour does not seem to recognise the public good, as my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings just mentioned. It wants to charge VAT on school fees and end business rates relief for private schools, taxing aspiration and inevitably putting more pressure on state schools.
Peter Fox: ..., Welsh Government has pulled support from businesses in the hospitality, leisure and retail sectors here in Wales, ensuring that pubs and restaurants and shops will pay almost double the rate of business rates as their counterparts in England. So, in light of this, Llywydd, we cannot support these regulations that maintain such high business rates here in Wales.
Gareth Davies: ...£37 billion has been provided to the tourism, leisure and hospitality sectors in the form of grants, loans and tax breaks. At Autumn Statement 2023, the government announced it will extend the business rates Retail, Hospitality and Leisure relief scheme at 75 per cent, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2024-25. Around 230,000 retail, hospitality and leisure properties will...
Lord Offord of Garvel: The Government delivered nearly £27 billion of Business Grant Support during the pandemic and continues to support UK small businesses via a substantial business rates package worth £4.3 billion over the next 5 years. The Energy Bill Relief Scheme protects eligible businesses from excessively high energy bills over winter periods. The British Business Bank supports 12.4bn of finance...