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Question for Department for Communities and Local Government

UIN 4403, tabled on 25 June 2015

Question

Mr Nigel Evans
Conservative
Ribble Valley
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to protect pubs in rural areas.

Answer

Mr Marcus Jones
Conservative
Nuneaton
Commons

Answered on

1 July 2015

The Government has helped to support the pub trade by cutting beer duty, scrapping the beer duty escalators and introducing business rate discounts for small businesses, benefitting three out of four pubs.

The Department is providing £350,000 funding support via Pub is the Hub and the Plunkett Foundation to help communities to own their local pub and to incorporate other community services in it.

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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