1st reading: House of Commons
Friday 13th January 2017
Local Government Finance Bill 2016-17 View all Local Government Finance Bill 2016-17 Debates Read Hansard Text
Friday 13th January 2017
(8 years ago)
Commons ChamberLocal Government Finance Bill 2016-17 View all Local Government Finance Bill 2016-17 Debates Read Hansard Text
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[Mr Speaker in the Chair]
Bill Presented
Local Government Finance Bill
Presentation and First Reading (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Secretary Javid, supported by the Prime Minister, Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary Greg Clark, Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Secretary Andrea Leadsom and Ben Gummer, presented a Bill to make provision about non-domestic rating in England; to amend Chapter 4ZA of Part 1 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992; to confer power on the Greater London Authority and certain local authorities in England to impose levies on nondomestic ratepayers to raise money for expenditure on projects expected to promote economic development; to confer power on certain local authorities in England to impose a levy on persons with certain property interests in a business improvement district to finance projects to be carried out in the district; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time tomorrow; and to be printed (Bill 122) with explanatory notes (Bill 122-EN).
Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills) (Con)
I beg to move, That the House sit in private.
Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 163), and negatived.