Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will he take steps to ensure that the Valuation Office Agency classifies accommodation let out to key workers on reduced rates as being commercially let and in fulfilment with the specified time periods for short-term letting availability.
Business rates and ratings are devolved in Wales, and are therefore a matter for the Welsh Government.
In England, to be classed as non-domestic property the owner must have made the property available for commercial short-term letting for at least 140 days in the last year; to have actually let it for a total of at least 70 days; and have arranged for it to be available on the same basis over the next 12 months.