Does my hon. Friend recognise that the debate is also timely because it is a quarter day? Up and down the country, thousands of small businesses will have to pay their commercial rents or land rents to landlords. Has he heard of any assistance proposed by the Government to allow those businesses to continue in existence, because if they do not, they will not be able to pay the rates either?
Business Rates and the Recession
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Key
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 25 March 2009.
It occurred during Opposition day on Business Rates and the Recession.
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