Oral Question·Department for Transport
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 10 September 2020Answered: 17 September 2020
Asked by
Alicia Kearns
Conservative — Rutland and Stamford
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Transport
Answer from Hansard
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray)
More than 700,000 small businesses across the UK pay no business rates at all as they receive 100% small business rate relief. We are transforming business rates over this Parliament. We are cutting bureaucracy, too—removing the need for the owners of small businesses such as family-run cafés to submit pages and pages of directors’ reports to Companies House.