PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates (2 November 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the effect of the staircase tax on small businesses.
Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)
Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)
Answer
Ministers and officials have frequent discussions with their Treasury counterparts on a range of matters, including business rates.
My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has set out the government’s position on this issue, most recently in his evidence to the Treasury Committee on 11 October.
Answered by:
Margot James (Conservative)
7 November 2017
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