Rupert Lowe
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Dan Tomlinson
It is important to note that there is a 40% relief in the system for smaller and independent businesses. It will be phased out over the coming years; we have put in transitional relief protection. As the Chancellor said earlier, that is reasonable. Members from across the House will agree that it would not be right to have temporary pandemic support still in place at the end of the decade.
Rupert Lowe (Great Yarmouth) (Ind)
I will not challenge you to a corridor race today, Mr Speaker, but good luck with your leg.
I wrote to the Chancellor on 8 January, with the support of 7,000 small businesses from across the spectrum—not just pubs. They are concerned about not only rate re-evaluations, and the vicious tax rises that they have had to suffer, but the cost of the Employment Rights Act 2025. When can the 7,001 of us expect a reply?
Dan Tomlinson
I regularly reply to letters and parliamentary questions from the hon. Member and those on both sides of the House.