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  Reducing Costs for Businesses
  
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  @ MP voted aye for business rates reform, for allowing businesses flexibility on Government loans and for a contingency fund to support businesses with high energy costs.
  
  @ MP voted no against business rates reform, against allowing businesses flexibility on Government loans and against a contingency fund to support businesses with high energy costs.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted for business rates reform, for allowing businesses flexibility on Government loans and for a contingency fund to support businesses with high energy costs.
   
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That this House
  :''recognises'' the strain that businesses are under following a difficult Christmas period and two years of disruption during the covid-19 outbreak;
  :''notes'' challenges are more severe in some sectors;
  :''regrets'' that businesses are struggling with increasing energy costs, high inflation, low growth and higher taxes as a result of the Governmentâs long-term failures and lack of adequate support; and  therefore 
  :''calls on the Government'' to reform business rates, to alleviate the debt burden by allowing businesses flexibility on Government loans and to implement a contingency fund to support businesses with high energy costs.
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