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Vaughan Gething: ...to start a business within this financial year, and that fund will formally reopen in the new year. I'll also respond to the point made that the finance Minister has actually, on the future of business rates, of course—. We are negotiating and going through the difficult process of being able to lay a draft budget, but last week, on reform, the finance Minister set out the Bill for...
Anne Marie Morris: ...looks at that in the round. The Government have to accept that the original plan in 2010, which effectively tried to shift the balance of funding away from central grants and towards council tax and business rates, is fundamentally flawed. The problem is that it has baked in underfunding, which has just got worse and worse each year. A courageous Government would recognise the imbalance...
John Whittingdale: .... DCMS Ministers attended the opening of the first acquisition, ‘The Snug’ in Atherton, Greater Manchester, in October. Music venues are also eligible for the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief, with a 75% relief up to a cash cap limit of £110,000 per business. This relief was extended for a further year during the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement last week. DCMS and...
Jon Cruddas: ...by some 40% in real terms between 2009-10 and 2019-20; it has gone from £46.5 billion down to £28 billion. Consequently, councils are more and more reliant on local funding through council tax and business rates. That has not been enough to compensate for the drop in central Government funding. Since 2021, five local authorities have declared themselves effectively bankrupt because their...
Cherilyn Mackrory: ...of south-west Conservative MPs, we have been lobbying the Government to make changes in this area to ensure that we do not let this continue to happen. I am so grateful that we have closed the business rates loophole, which has been referred to, and that the Government have consulted on a register for holiday lets and change of use for planning. Incidentally, we talked to the industry...
Paul Davies: ...week, and I disagree with the Minister—this budget, I believe, took welcome action to support businesses across the country. The changes to national insurance contributions, the continuation of business rates discounts and the cutting of business taxes will have a positive impact on businesses, and I know many businesses are now looking to the Welsh Government for similar action on...
Kevin Hollinrake: ...sector and understands the challenges businesses face. The Hospitality Sector Council is focusing on steps to build the sector’s resilience. In his Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced a business rates support package worth £4.3 billion over the next five years to support small businesses and the high street. The small business multiplier will be frozen for a fourth consecutive...
Chris Bryant: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Cabinet Colleagues on the Valuation Office Agency's planned increase in business rate evaluations for film studios.
Steve McCabe: ...and inflation is falling slowly—very slowly. The Chancellor says he is putting money in people’s pockets, despite the Bank of England wanting us to spend less. He has agreed to freeze the small business rates multiplier for another year, but the increase in the minimum wage, though welcome for employees, will largely offset any benefits that businesses gain from the rates freeze....
Gareth Davies: ...we do need a balanced mix in our energy provision, and that is key to our national security as part of our energy security. Businesses are vital for our high streets, so we have extended the 75% business rates discount for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses for another year, saving the average pub more than £12,800 next year. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for...
Laura Trott: The Government announced at Autumn Statement 2023 a business rates support package worth £4.3 billion over the next 5 years to support small businesses and the high street. The small multiplier will be frozen and Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) relief will be extended, which will ensure that the most vulnerable businesses continue to be supported. The Government also announced...
Elizabeth Smith: The autumn statement told small businesses in England and Wales that they will benefit for another year from a 75 per cent discount on business rates. I ask again whether the Scottish Government will ensure that that is also the case for small businesses in Scotland.
Bim Afolami: ...statement. The policy of full expensing means that for every pound that our businesses are able to invest, they will get 25p off their tax bill. There are measures to protect small businesses on business rates; on R&D tax credits, we are reducing the rate at which the credit is taxed from 25% to 19%; and we have introduced investment zones across huge swathes of our country. A few years...
Peter Fox: Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. We also know that business rates will be cut in England for retail, leisure and hospitality, and I am hoping that the same will happen in Wales and help to remove the barriers in place here that are stopping businesses and investment from moving forward here. With all of this in mind, do you, Minister, agree with me that this is a positive autumn statement,...
Jeremy Hunt: What I would say to the businesses in Blaby and Glen Prva is that for every single small business we have frozen business rates, and we are rolling over a 75% discount on business rates for every pub, restaurant and high-street shop for another year. We want to do everything possible to back small businesses, because they are the lifeblood of our communities.
Vikki Howells: ..., any system of revaluation could, of course, have winners and losers. People who lose out may not have access to the resources, short term, to make up any shortfall, and that's in terms of both business rates and council tax. With flexibility being key to the Welsh Government's proposals, what sort of mechanisms will be put in place so that any change is managed and can be sympathetically...
John Hayes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to help small businesses in rural areas with increases in business rates.
Marsha de Cordova: ...support (a) SME, (b) independent and (c) other wine and spirits businesses with high-street presence in the context of (i) the increase in alcohol duty brought in in August 2023 and (ii) the end of business rates relief at the end of the 2023-24 financial year.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of business rates on the warehousing sector.
Sarah Dyke: ...flag-waving trade deals. In the meantime, Somerset high streets are emptying fast. Local shops, banks, post offices, pharmacies, GP surgeries and NHS dentists are all being priced out by the Tory business rates, forcing residents to travel further to access their needs. We will reform high street business rates and work hard to ensure that nobody is out of reach of banking services and...