Consultation outcome

Discretionary business rates relief scheme

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 9 March 2017

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

The government has considered the responses to the consultation on the scheme announced at Spring Budget 2017 for discretionary business rates relief and determined that final allocations to local authorities will be made according to the draft allocations published as part of the consultation.

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Original consultation

Summary

Consultation on the design and implementation of the discretionary business rates relief scheme.

This consultation ran from
1:30pm on 9 March 2017 to 11:45pm on 7 April 2017

Consultation description

At the Budget on 8 March, the Chancellor announced that the government would make available a discretionary fund of £300 million to support those businesses most affected by the revaluation.

This consultation paper seeks views on the:

• allocation of resources to local authorities
• arrangements for local authorities compensation
• operation and conditions of discretionary relief scheme

Documents

Consultation on proposals on the design and implementation of the locally administered business rates relief scheme

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-5020-5

PDF, 429 KB, 13 pages

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Distribution of £300 million discretionary pot

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 49.3 KB

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Published 9 March 2017