Private Education: Business Rates
Commons · Question 24510 · Tabled 16 Jan 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by David Simmonds
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 17827 on Private Education: Business Rates, what estimate she has made of the number of independent schools which receive discretionary business rate relief fro
Answer
Answered by James Murray, 24 Jan 2025
Under the existing discretionary relief powers provided by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 local authorities are permitted to award relief of any level to any ratepayers, where they feel it reasonable to do so and it is in the interest of local coun...