Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2015 to Question 617, on non domestic rates: local areas, which other departments his Department is working with; and on what dates Ministers in his Department have had discussions on this issue with their counterparts in other departments.

We are working with the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Treasury. Department for Culture, Media and Sport ministers have not met with their counterparts to discuss this issue specifically as it has been dealt with at official level.