Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the potential financial effect on police forces of changes to the level of business rates on local police stations; and what discussions he has had with representatives of police forces on those changes.

My Department has not undertaken an estimate of the potential financial effect on police forces of the recent business rates revaluation, nor have we had any discussions with representatives of police forces on this matter. The revaluation was fiscally neutral with the majority of ratepayers seeing no increase or a reduction in their bills. We have put in place a £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme for England to support the minority of ratepayers that have received increased bills.