Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 3.16 of the Spring Budget 2017, what estimate he has made of how much of the (a) £435 million of further support for businesses facing significant increases in bills from the English business rates system and (b) £300 million discretionary relief to allow councils to provide support to individual hard cases in their local areas will be allocated to (i) Leeds East constituency, (ii) Leeds and (iii) Yorkshire.

The Government has published a consultation on the £300 million discretionary relief scheme announced at the Spring Budget 2017. The consultation sets out a proposed allocation methodology and indicative allocations for individual billing authorities. The consultation is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/discretionary-business-rates-relief-scheme

The additional support for businesses losing small business rate relief and the new discount for pubs will be available to all eligible businesses in each billing authority.