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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Martin Vickers Excerpts
Tuesday 21st May 2019

(4 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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Music venues are eligible for many of the reliefs, worth £13 billion over the coming years, we have introduced since 2016, as well as the switch from uprating the multiplier from RPI to CPI. Many benefit from small business rates relief as well. I will of course, as with all representations, take the hon. Gentleman’s comments on board and consider them going forward.

Martin Vickers Portrait Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes) (Con)
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Not all of the small private hotels and guest houses in Cleethorpes are noted as music venues, but they would benefit from additional relief to their business rates. They are finding trading particularly difficult at the moment. Would the Minister look sympathetically on representations from them?

Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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In short, yes. I always look sympathetically on any representations to reduce taxation.