Arts: Business Rate Relief

Lord Berkeley of Knighton Excerpts

Thursday 10th March 2016 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

I feel sure that those views are already being taken into account, as will the views being expressed by the House today. The noble Baroness makes a good point.

[Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB)]

My Lords, given the parlous state of many of these bodies, as we have heard, have the Government made a precise assessment—or will they—of exactly how much this relief helps these organisations and how they would be affected should it be cut?