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  Draft Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account: Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019
  
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  @ MP voted aye for greater local business rate retention in certain areas and for a proposed scheme to redistribute business rate income between public bodies in different areas.
  @ MP voted no against greater local business rate retention in certain areas and against a proposed scheme to redistribute business rate income between public bodies in different areas.
  
  The majority of MPs voted for greater local business rate retention in certain areas and for a proposed scheme to redistribute business rate income between public bodies in different areas.
   
  The motion supported by a majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the draft [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111181751/contents Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account: Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019], which were laid before this House on 21 February, be approved.
  
  The regulations enable local councils, and other bodies which receive council tax funding, in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Leicester and Leicestershire, London, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, North and West Yorkshire, North of Tyne, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, Solent, Somerset, West Sussex and Worcestershire to nominally retain 75% of local business rate income. 
  
  The regulations also set out how the Government will redistribute business rates income between certain councils.
  
  * [1] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111181751/pdfs/ukdsiem_9780111181751_en.pdf Explanatory memorandum to the Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account: Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019]
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