Third
Special Report
1. The Committee published its Seventh Report
of Session 2006-07, Local Government Finance: Supplementary
Business Rate, on 7 August 2007.[1]
The Government published Business rate supplements: a White
Paper in October that year,[2]
supplementing it as a response to the Committee's report with
a brief memorandum containing "an explanation of why the
Government decided to deviate from some of [the Committee's] recommendations".[3]
2. The Committee published a further report,
on the Government's response, on 21 January 2008, as its Third
Report of Session 2007-08.[4]
The Government's response to this further report was received
on 7 November 2008, and is set out as an Appendix to this Report.
1 HC 719 Back
2
Cm 7230 Back
3
HC 210, para 6 and Appendix. Back
4
Local Government Finance-Supplementary Business Rate: the Government's
Response, HC 210. Back
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