Consultation responses and other items

2026

Business Rates and Investment: Call for evidence, 18 February 2026

2025

Local authority funding reform - resetting the business rates retention system

Consultation on Local Authority Funding Reform: objectives and principles - February 2025

2023

Technical adjustments to the Business Rates Retention System in response to the Non-Domestic Rating Bill - November 2023

2022

Technical adjustment to the Business Rates Retention system in response to the 2023 Revaluation and central list transfers

2019

Fair Funding Review consultation – LGA response March 2019

Business Rates retention consultation – LGA response March 2019

2018

Academic seminar: principles, techniques and lessons from elsewhere - summary read out (January 2018)

LGA Response to FFR needs consultation - March 2018

Fair funding review: a review of relative needs and resources - consultation information

Appeals loss submission

2017

Lord Porter's letter to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government regarding the future direction of the reforms

Invitation to local authorities in England to pilot 100% business rates retention in 2018 - 2019

100% business rates retention: further consultation on the design of the reformed system (DCLG)

LGA response (May 2017)

2016

Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention (DCLG)

LGA response (September 2016)

Fair Funding Review: call for evidence on needs and redistribution (DCLG)

LGA response (September 2016)

 

Highlighted pages

Funding and business rates retention reform

In December 2024 the Government announced that from 2026/27 it would introduce a new assessment of need and resources, building on the framework set out in the previous government’s review of Relative Needs and Resources (originally Fair Funding Review). It also announced that the 50 per cent Business Rates Retention system would be reset from April 2026. The LGA has been collaborating with councils and the Government to take these proposals forward.