Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if the Government will commit to support freeports for the life of the development, rather than for a specific time period, including at Parkside.
Details of the Government’s free ports programme are published on gov.uk and include a generous package of tax reliefs until 2026 for eligible businesses on Freeport tax sites like Parkside. We are also backing Freeports over a 25-year period through local retention of all business rates growth above an agreed baseline.