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Scotland: Scottish Economy: Autumn Statement 2023 (24 Jan 2024)

John Lamont: ...with my hon. Friend, and Sir Tom is right too. Traders in Scotland have accused the SNP Government of undermining the rejuvenation of high streets across Scotland with their tax hike of 6.7% through business rates. The SNP must stop attacking employers and high-street traders who are already under tremendous financial strain because of the SNP’s mismanagement of Scotland’s economy.

Written Answers — Treasury: Business Rates: Film and Television (22 Jan 2024)

Chris Bryant: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an impact assessment of the Valuation Office Agency's decision to raise business rates on film and TV studios.

Written Answers — Wales Office: Hospitality Industry: Wales (22 Jan 2024)

David Davies: ...sector by freezing alcohol duty until August 2024, and increasing the new Draught Relief duty from the initially proposed 5% to 9.2%. In addition, in England, we have extended the 75% relief on business rates available to hospitality, retail and leisure businesses. I am concerned about the impact of the cut to non-domestic rates relief for hospitality businesses proposed by the Welsh...

Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill (19 Jan 2024)

George Freeman: ...rise of online commerce and digital retail has also taken quite a lot of the life out of many of our towns, and our high streets are struggling to remain vibrant. The Government’s moves to reduce business rates has helped, but the pandemic and the cost of energy crisis, coming off the back of the Ukraine war, has hit rural areas disproportionately hard. That is a theme I will be picking...

Written Answers — Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Retail Trade: Urban Areas (18 Jan 2024)

Jacob Young: ...of Town Deals and over £830 million of Future High Streets Funding across 170 high streets, town centres and local communities in England. At the last autumn statement, the Chancellor announced a business rates support package worth £4.3 billion over the next five years, freezing the small business multiplier and extending the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure scheme. I want to thank my...

Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Floods: Compensation (18 Jan 2024)

Kevin Hollinrake: ...by Storm Henk interested in the BRG should contact their Local Authority for details and qualification requirements. Businesses significantly affected by recent flooding could also be eligible for business rates relief via schemes delivered by DLUHC and via DEFRA schemes.

Scottish Parliament: Fiscal Policies (Rural Economy) (17 Jan 2024)

Shona Robison: ...93 million across Marine Scotland and support for fisheries and aquaculture. Scotland’s non-domestic rates relief package includes rural rates relief and the United Kingdom’s most generous small business rates relief. The hospitality sector in the islands will get 100 per cent relief for hospitality, capped at £110,000 per ratepayer. It has to be said that the UK Government has failed...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders (16 Jan 2024)

Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...want. Of course they will accept money, but that is not the kind of support that they want now. The priority has to be on helping them deal with the acute problems that they do face now, and the business rates cut is causing more intense problems for them. Last week I made the case for less short-term economic thinking by the Welsh Government, but isn't the approach to business rates here...

Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Floods: Business (16 Jan 2024)

Kevin Hollinrake: ...Storm Babet and those affected by Storm Henk interested in the BRG should contact their Local Authority for details. Businesses significantly affected by recent flooding could also be eligible for business rates relief via schemes delivered by DLUHC and via DEFRA schemes.

Written Answers — Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Sustainability of the Press Review (16 Jan 2024)

Julia Lopez: ...them forward through a range of fiscal and regulatory interventions. This has included delivery of a £2 million Future News Fund, the zero rating of VAT on e-newspapers; the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and our work through the Mid-Term Review of the BBC Charter, exploring how...

Written Answers — Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Reach: Redundancy (16 Jan 2024)

Julia Lopez: ...digital business models, the Government has taken action to support them. This includes delivery of a £2 million Future News Fund, the zero rating of VAT on e-newspapers; the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and our work through the Mid-Term Review of the BBC Charter, exploring how...

Scottish Parliament: Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 (16 Jan 2024)

Paul Sweeney: ...s financial autonomy. Therefore, any measure by which the council can increase its autonomy and improve its revenue position is to be welcomed. The local taxation balance between the council tax and business rates in Glasgow has shifted towards the former and away from the latter in recent years. That is a regressive change. The cost of council tax has been increased and it is anticipated...

Public Services in Cornwall: Funding (15 Jan 2024)

Gareth Davies: ...the UK are based in coastal areas, with each receiving up to £26 million in Government funding over the next few years, as well as potentially hundreds of millions of pounds in locally retained business rates to upgrade local infrastructure and stimulate regeneration across coastal communities. My hon. Friends have mentioned the UK shared prosperity fund. I recognise and commend my hon....

Cost of Living Support: Carshalton and Wallington (11 Jan 2024)

Elliot Colburn: ...been uplifted in line with inflation; a new mortgage charter has been agreed with lenders to prevent unaffordable rises; national insurance has been cut, saving families £450 a year on average; business rates have been frozen; and much more has been done by this Government to try to help. To build on that success, inflation must of course continue to fall but, as we know, that only slows...

Written Answers — Treasury: Hospitality Industry: VAT (11 Jan 2024)

Nigel Huddleston: At Autumn Statement 2023, the Government announced a package of business rates changes and tax cuts, including extending the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure relief scheme at 75 per cent, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2024-2025. This is tax cut worth almost £2.4 billion for around 230,000 properties. VAT is the UK's third largest tax forecast to raise £173 billion in...

Church Commissioners: Choral Music: Cathedrals (11 Jan 2024)

Andrew Selous: I can tell my hon. Friend that there is a concern that cathedral schools may not be able to afford to pay business rates. If the payment of business rates and the addition of VAT on fees cause choir schools to close, that would be an issue for a number of cathedrals.

Storm Henk - Statement (10 Jan 2024)

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville: ...flooding. This is good news. Can the Minister say when this will come in? Eligible flooded households can apply for £500 to help with immediate costs, together with 100% relief on council tax and business rates for three months. But it could be six months before flooded householders will be back in their homes; some people may be out for a year. Would the Government agree to looking at...

Finance Bill: Clause 21 - Ensuring consistency of Parts 3 and 4 of F(No.2)A 2023 with OECD rules etc (10 Jan 2024)

James Murray: ...up shell companies with fake directors, and then using those shell companies for a range of purposes, including the practice of sitting behind dodgy American-themed candy stores to avoid paying business rates. We have been calling for tougher identity-verification requirements for new companies. In the case of business rates, this would strengthen councils’ ability to take enforcement...

1. Questions to the Minister for Economy: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (10 Jan 2024)

Luke Fletcher: The question I asked was whether or not you believed it was the right time to reduce business rates relief, and you set out, quite rightly, why now is not the right time to do so when businesses are facing rising costs through inflation and rising energy prices. I think the very fact that businesses rely so heavily on rates relief shows that business rates need reform. Previously, the...

Prime Minister: Engagements (10 Jan 2024)

Rishi Sunak: ...weekend, we are cutting taxes for an average person in work by £450. In Wales, where Labour is in charge, the Welsh Government are raising them, with businesses there now seeing double the rate of business rates this year. It is the same in Scotland under the SNP. It is the new high-tax capital of the United Kingdom because of the SNP’s tax-hiking decisions. Mr Speaker, while we have a...


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