Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

Tabled: 15 March 2022Answered: 21 March 2022

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

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.