PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Non-domestic Rates (17 October 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure small businesses working in separate parts of a building linked by communal staircases, lifts and corridors do not have those spaces classed as separate premises by the Valuation Office when business rates are being assessed.

Asked by:
Mr James Frith (Labour)

The Government is aware of the change in the Valuation Office Agency’s approach to assessing units within buildings of multiple occupation, following the Supreme Court judgement in the Mazars v Woolway case. The Government is considering the implications of this judgement.

Answered by:
Mr Marcus Jones (Conservative)
23 October 2017