PMQT Written Answers – 20 March 1991

March 20, 1991February 16, 2021 admin 1991, Uniform Business Rates

Below is the text of the written answers relating to Prime Minister’s Question Time from 20th March 1991.

PRIME MINISTER:

Uniform Business Rate

Mr. Gwilym Jones : To ask the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the impact of the operation of the uniform business rate on (a) offices, (b) factories, (c) warehouses and (d) shops in Wales relative to England.

The Prime Minister : The uniform business rate poundage for 1990-91 has been set at 36.8p in the pound in Wales in order to raise broadly the same amount in real terms from private business and nationalised industries as in 1989-90. The same principle has been adopted in England.

The combined impact of the revaluation of non-domestic property and the introduction of the uniform business rate on the specified categories of property is shown in the tables :

Changes in aggregate rate bills<1>

between 1989-90 and 1990-91

Percentage change

Property type |Wales |England

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Offices |0 |12

Factories |-26 |-31

Warehouses |-17 |-22

Shops |21 |18

<1> After allowing for inflation as measured by the retail prices index and for appeals against valuation.

Change in rate bills by property type, England and Wales

Reduction (-) Increase (+) in rate bill, per cent.

England Wales

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Factories |-31 |-9 |-22 |-26 |-1 |-26

Warehouses |-22 |-6 |-15 |-17 |+1 |-17

Shops |+18 |-1 |+19 |+21 |- |+21

Offices |+12 |+20 |-8 |- |+7 |-8

Other properties |+12 |-5 |+16 |+12 |- |+12

Changes in rate bills by property type, England and Wales

Reduction ( )/Increase ( ) in rate bill, per cent.

England Wales

Property type Overall change Net change on UBR Net change on revaluation Overall change Net change on UBR Net change on revaluation

Factories 31 9 22 26 1 26

Warehouses 22 6 15 17 1 17

Shops 18 1 19 21 — 21

Offices 12 20 8 — 7 8

Other properties 12 5 16 12 — 12