Hospitals: Non-domestic Rates

Department of Health written question – answered at on 11 September 2017.

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Photo of Jon Ashworth Jon Ashworth Shadow Secretary of State for Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the level of business rates to be paid by NHS hospitals in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19 and (d) 2019-20.

Photo of Philip Dunne Philip Dunne The Minister of State, Department of Health

There has been no such assessment.

National Health Service properties, like almost all other buildings occupied by public bodies, have been subject to non-domestic rates since they were introduced. The independent Valuation Office Agency is responsible for valuations and setting rateable values for business, each NHS organisation is responsible for ensuring their current rating assessments and can challenge them if they believe they are incorrect.

The Government introduced a £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme which provides support for those properties which face an increase in rates as a result of the 2017 revaluation, and applies equally to public bodies such as the NHS.

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