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Further supplementary memorandum submitted by the Local Government Association (LGA)

Thank you for inviting me to give evidence to the Committee on 24 January in relation to your inquiry into localism.

During my oral evidence I promised that i would write to the Committee regarding the Local Government Group's position on the setting of business rates locally. The difficulty in answering your question came from the fact that the Group does not have an agreed position on this issue currently, beyond the fact that we have consistently called for business rates to be re-localised.

In view of the Local Government Resource Review, we are currently drawing up a consultation document which we will be putting out to our members, and this will help to inform any eventual position we take on this issue. I trust this is of some help.



 
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