PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Empty Property: Business Rates (21 March 2024)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 37 of his Department's publication entitled, Spring Budget 2024: Policy Costings, published in March 2024, if he will publish the figures used by his Department for the size of the tax base in calculating those costings.

Asked by:
James Murray (Labour)

The policy costing was based on data reflecting business rates receipts and reliefs as reported by local authorities in the National Non-Domestic Rates forms, which are publicly available on the gov.uk website.

Answered by:
Nigel Huddleston (Conservative)
26 March 2024