Marie Rimmer – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Marie Rimmer on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to maintain the current level of top-up in real terms to the Manchester and Liverpool City Regions when the planned devolution of business rates to those areas takes place in April 2017.

Mr Marcus Jones

The Government is taking the opportunity to pilot approaches to 100% business rates retention in Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and London. This will help us for example to develop the mechanisms that will be needed to manage risk and reward under 100% rates retention.

Government officials are currently working with Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and London to develop the detail around these pilots.