PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Solar Power: Non-domestic Rates (16 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that proposed increases in business rates do not have a negative effect on the British solar industry.

Asked by:
Sir Alan Campbell (Labour)

Business rates are based on valuations from the Valuation Office Agency and we do not intervene in their independent assessments. We have put in place a £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme to ensure that no ratepayer is unfairly penalised by the 2017 revaluation.

Answered by:
Mr Marcus Jones (Conservative)
28 December 2016