|
|
| |
| |
|
| |
| |
| Business Rate Supplements Bill
|
|
| [First and Second Sittings]
|
|
| |
| | |
| | |
| | (1) | the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 am on Tuesday |
|
| | |
| | (a) | at 4.00 pm on Tuesday 20 January; |
|
| | (b) | at 9.00 am on Thursday 22 January; |
|
| | (c) | at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 27 January; |
|
| | (d) | at 9.00 am and 1.00 pm on Thursday 29 January; |
|
| | (e) | at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 3 February; |
|
| | (2) | the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following |
|
| | |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
| | (3) | proceeding on consideration of the Bill in Committee shall be taken in the |
|
| | following order: Clauses 1 to 5; Schedule 1; Clauses 6 to 22; Schedule 2; |
|
| | Clauses 23 to 32; new Clauses; new Schedules; remaining proceedings on the |
|
| | |
| | (4) | the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a |
|
| | conclusion at 7.00 pm on Tuesday 3 February. |
|
| |
| |
| | That, subject to the discretion of the Chairman, any written evidence received by the |
|
| | Committee shall be reported to the House for publication. |
|
| | |
| |
| |
| | That, at this and any subsequent meeting at which oral evidence is to be heard, the |
|
| | Committee shall sit in private until the witnesses are admitted. |
|
| | |
| |
| |
| | The following witnesses gave oral evidence:
|
|
| | |
| | Jane Milne, Director of Business Environment, and
|
|
| | Tom Ironside, Policy Executive—Local Government and Taxation, British Retail Consortium;
|
|
| | |
| | David Frost, Director-General, British Chambers of Commerce;
|
|
| | |
| | Karen Dee, Head of Infrastructure, and
|
|
| | Julian Lyon, Manager, European Real Estates, General Motors Corporation, and Chair of the CBI |
|
| | Property Group, Confederation of British Industry;
|
|
| | |
| | Dr Julie Grail, Chief Executive, British Business Improvement Districts;
|
|
| | |
| | Blake Penfold, Chair, and
|
|
| | Jerry Schurder, Panel Member, Rating and Local Taxation Policy Panel, Royal Institution of |
|
| | |
| | |
| | Councillor Keith Ross, Leader of the LGA Independent Group, and
|
|
| | Councillor Stephen Knight, Deputy Leader of Richmond upon Thames Council, Local Government |
|
| | |
| |
| [Adjourned till Thursday at 9.00 a.m. |
|
|