Hospitals: Non-domestic Rates
(asked on 12th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will exempt NHS hospitals from business rates.
This question was answered on 17th January 2017
The Government has no plans to exempt NHS hospitals from business rates. Hospitals, like almost all other buildings occupied by public bodies, have been subject to non-domestic rates since they were introduced.