Question follow-through · 34288
Unitary Councils: Business Rates
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will published (a) the process and (b) her Department's timetable for determining how the new unitary councils will be awarded local business rates for retention.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will published (a) the process and (b) her Department's timetable for determining how the new unitary councils will be awarded local business rates for retention.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2025
Answer published
Under the Business Rates Retention System, a share of business rates is retained by local government. The distribution of business rates income between local authorities is determined by the relationship between each authority’s funding need compared with...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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