Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 27 September 2016.
Well, we’ve already put £98 million into the rate relief scheme. There is bound to be a threshold, unfortunately, and those who are, as they would see it, at the wrong end of the threshold, yes, they will have to pay business rates. What we cannot do is introduce a system where everybody gets business rate relief and nobody pays business rates. Like any business, businesses have to take decisions as to the size of their premises in order to understand what is affordable for them as a business.