Support for rural businesses
A debate on support for rural businesses will take place in Westminster Hall on 18 June 2025 at 2:30pm. The Library will publish briefing materials ahead of the debate.

A briefing on the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2019-20 for England.
Local Government Finance Settlement 2019-20 (1 MB , PDF)
The provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2019-20 was published on 13 December 2018, with an oral statement and questions in the House of Commons on the same day.
The provisional settlement documentation includes details of allocations of grant funding to local authorities for the 2019-20 financial year. For that year, it also includes details of business rate retention pilots; proposed council tax referendum principles; and policy decisions on the New Homes Bonus, ‘negative Revenue Support Grant’, and grants for social care.
The final settlement figures for individual local authorities were published on 29 January 2019.
The motion for the final settlement documentation is on Tuesday 5 February 2019.
Two additional consultation papers were published alongside the provisional settlement documentation. These are Business Rates Retention Reform and A review of local authorities’ relative needs and resources. The former addresses the new system of 75% business rate retention, expected to be introduced in 2020-21. The latter concerns the ‘Fair Funding Review’, also expected to take effect from 2020-21. Details of these papers can be found in the Library briefing paper Reviewing and reforming local government finance.
Local Government Finance Settlement 2019-20 (1 MB , PDF)
A debate on support for rural businesses will take place in Westminster Hall on 18 June 2025 at 2:30pm. The Library will publish briefing materials ahead of the debate.
A summary of the departmental spending limits and other announcements in the 2025 Spending Review.
Answers to frequently asked questions relating to banking services, mortgages, general investments and credit scores.