Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether businesses in the retail supply chain are eligible for business rates relief.
This year the Government has provided an unprecedented business rates holiday for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure properties due to the direct adverse effects of COVID-19, worth about £10 billion, and has frozen the business rates multiplier for all businesses for 2021-22.
Business rates are devolved in Northern Ireland and so are a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive.