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Business Rates

Opposition day on Monday, 15 June 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Justine Greening. The answering member was Baroness Winterton of Doncaster.
Business rates. Thirteenth opposition day debate (part 2). Main question negatived on division (207 votes to 269). Amendment agreed on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
494 c93-132 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 494 c115 (Link to this contribution) Thirty minutes remain before the winding-up speeches and six hon. Members wish to contribute. I leav...
Julia Goldsworthy | 494 c112-5 (Link to this contribution) No: I wish to make progress as I am aware that there is very little time for Back Benchers to speak....

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Julia Goldsworthy | 494 c112 (Link to this contribution) No; instead I will try to make swift progress so as to give the hon. Gentleman a chance to make his ...
Julia Goldsworthy | 494 c112 (Link to this contribution) May I finish what I am saying? Later we will discuss the business rate supplement scheme. The Conse...
Christopher Fraser | 494 c111 (Link to this contribution) In the four or five minutes for which the hon. Lady has been speaking, we have not heard a word abou...
Julia Goldsworthy | 494 c111 (Link to this contribution) I fully intend to do so. However, we must debate the Conservative motion and the alternative present...
Julia Goldsworthy | 494 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) I think that hon. Members of all parties would agree that we are living in unprecedented economic ti...
Mike Penning | 494 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) I ask the new Minister for Regional Economic Development and Co-ordination to listen carefully to th...
Geoffrey Robinson | 494 c118-9 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that there is probably a lot of support for what the hon. Member for Northampton, South (M...
Brooks Newmark | 494 c122-3 (Link to this contribution) We have heard much about the challenges that many of us have seen in our surgeries when representati...
Alan Whitehead | 494 c120-2 (Link to this contribution) We are addressing a serious issue this evening—how businesses may get the best help possible through...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 494 c125-8 (Link to this contribution) It is with enormous pleasure that I wind up the debate. In response to the hon. Member for Peterboro...
Clive Betts | 494 c115-6 (Link to this contribution) When I saw that the Opposition had raised the question of business rates, I thought we would be havi...
Clive Betts | 494 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I have not got time to give way. I normally would, but I had only five minutes and h...
Brian Binley | 494 c117-8 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Minister for Regional Economic Development and Co-ordination to her position tonig...
Speaker | 494 c128 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Lady, but far too many conversations are going on in the Cha...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 494 c128 (Link to this contribution) For ratepayers who face increases at the 2010 revaluation, we will introduce transitional arrangemen...
Speaker | 494 c128 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Lobby of her choice.
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c103 (Link to this contribution) I would be extremely surprised if businesses in the hon. Gentleman's constituency did not have, for ...
Christopher Fraser | 494 c103 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has given us some figures about what is happening. In a genuine bid to be helpful, I ag...
Christopher Fraser | 494 c103 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady talks about help for businesses. Will she, through her Department, give a breakd...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c104 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that I will address some of those issues later in my remarks. I think th...
Brooks Newmark | 494 c104 (Link to this contribution) The Minister was kind enough to offer—I am not sure whether it was just for the constituency of my h...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c103 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to bear one or two things in mind when he makes that sort of request. We wo...
Bob Spink | 494 c104 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Government for their recognition of the importance of SMEs. Can the Minister pl...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c104 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I am more than happy to take away requests that have been made for that information, beca...
Theresa Villiers | 494 c104 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is speaking at great length about how she thinks that the re-rating system is a fair on...
David Lidington | 494 c105 (Link to this contribution) May I press the right hon. Lady a little more on the deferral scheme? Surely, as my hon. Friend the ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c105 (Link to this contribution) I will come in due course to the details that the hon. Gentleman refers to. He is leaping ahead of m...
Julia Goldsworthy | 494 c106 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister think that it might be worth considering the inflation measures that the Governmen...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c106 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady will know, there are different methods of calculating what the increases will be in...
Caroline Spelman | 494 c106 (Link to this contribution) It is kind of the Minister to allow me to intervene. Does she understand that the Valuation Office A...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c106 (Link to this contribution) I will deal with revaluation and its effects on ports shortly.
Chris Mullin | 494 c107 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend has been in her post for only a few days—
Justine Greening | 494 c96 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The backbone of our economy has been our small businesses. We have been des...
Peter Luff | 494 c98 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very fine speech and I am sorry to interrupt, but she gives me the chance...
Justine Greening | 494 c98-9 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. We all hoped that the Budget would contain some genuine measures to help bus...
Justine Greening | 494 c98 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to give way. We have had enough from the hon. Gentleman tonight. In the Chamber,...
Rob Marris | 494 c97 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her generosity in giving way, but her tone of wounded outrage lac...
Justine Greening | 494 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) We do not need to take any lectures on supporting small businesses from a Government who upped their...
Justine Greening | 494 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall make some more progress. I want to make sure that others have a chance to contribute to the ...
Justine Greening | 494 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) It was gobbledegook, because on 8 June I then asked whether any provision had been made in the 2009-...
Clive Betts | 494 c100 (Link to this contribution) Surely the hon. Lady recognises that, at the end of the day, the effect of the revaluation is neutra...
Justine Greening | 494 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) I will not. The now-departed Secretary of State was, to use a phrase, too busy rocking the boat and...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c102 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from "House" to the end of the Question and add:""notes tha...
Brian Binley | 494 c103 (Link to this contribution) The Government raised great expectations for small businesses through all the schemes that they broa...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c103 (Link to this contribution) I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman says that, particularly when so much of what we have tried to...
Justine Greening | 494 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) Try telling that to some of the businesses that end up paying more. The hon. Gentleman seems to be l...
Julia Goldsworthy | 494 c101 (Link to this contribution) Some information might help the hon. Lady as she makes her argument. I am not sure whether she is ta...
Justine Greening | 494 c101 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Lady's point on board. My question is not to businesses; I have no doubt that they w...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) Let me briefly address the issue of levying local—[Interruption.] Well, I think I have addressed the...
Peter Luff | 494 c109 (Link to this contribution) As John Cleese remarks in "Clockwise",""I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand."" The ...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c109 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that that will not entirely satisfy the hon. Gentleman. I will give way to him, but I then...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that I have addressed a number of issues on this subject. I shall briefly move on to talk ab...
Mike Penning | 494 c108 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way; she has been exceptionally generous, and I am sure that the Hou...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c108 (Link to this contribution) We have tried to listen to the concerns that have been expressed by property owners. That is why, fo...
Chris Mullin | 494 c108 (Link to this contribution) I do hope that my right hon. Friend will have a look at this, because this is a much more serious pr...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that I will come to the issue of empty property rates. To return to the...
Chris Mullin | 494 c107 (Link to this contribution) No, not at all. Has she had an opportunity to assess the impact of the empty properties rate on busi...
Nick Raynsford | 494 c93 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady please tell the House how Ministers could have changed the formula, which her par...
Justine Greening | 494 c94 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's intervention. Much as I respect him, I think that peopl...
Justine Greening | 494 c93 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House expresses concern over the above-inflation rises in business rates si...
Speaker | 494 c93 (Link to this contribution) I must inform the House that Mr. Speaker has selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Ministe...
Justine Greening | 494 c96 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is hard to explain to Government Members when they constantly sh...
Christopher Fraser | 494 c96 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my hon. Friend agrees that small business and enterprise was the backbone of our economic ...
Alan Whitehead | 494 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady saying, as her initial remarks suggested, that she would change the legislation on ...
Justine Greening | 494 c94 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting that the last time the revaluation took place, in 2000, the hon. Gentleman's party...
Clive Betts | 494 c94 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Lady explain her party's policy on transitional relief? By definition, at some point th...
Justine Greening | 494 c94 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little more progress, but I will give way shortly. Ministers are refusing to reconsid...
Speaker | 494 c96 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady is responding to an intervention.
Justine Greening | 494 c96 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased the right hon. Gentleman is giving me the opportunity to make sure that the House is aw...
Nick Raynsford | 494 c95 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady clearly believes that the root of the problem is the Government. Given that she and he...
Justine Greening | 494 c95 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman is talking to me as though I am already the Minister looking af...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 494 c123-5 (Link to this contribution) The fact that this subject has been chosen by Her Majesty's Opposition for our allotted half day dem...
Louise Ellman | 494 c105 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge that the Government have tried to address the major problem imposed on businesses in p...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c105 (Link to this contribution) I will come later to some of the facts about how businesses are settling their liabilities and the e...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 494 c105 (Link to this contribution) I will come later to the fact that we have listened to what the ports have said. My predecessor, my ...
Subjects
Business
Credit
Finance
Empty property
Government assistance
Local government
Local government finance
Business rates
Valuation
Transitional arrangements
Contains statistics
Yes
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