questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Core Spending Power table: final local government finance settlement 2026–27 to 2028–29, published on 9 February, and the associated council tax requirement estimates for each year from 2024–25 to 2028–29 in England, if his Department will publish equivalent estimates for the total business rate receipts in England in each of those years, including both receipts from the local and central lists.
answerText: The government collects data twice a year on the business rates local authorities collect, once at the start of the year based on estimates, and then again at the end of the year based on what was actually collected in a given year. This is known as the N...
heading: Business Rates