Skip to main content
Banner image for Thérèse Coffey MP

Thérèse Coffey MP

Suffolk Coastal
Site logo

Main navigation

  • Home
  • About Thérèse Coffey
  • News
  • In Parliament
  • Advice Surgeries
  • Contact
  • Brexit Updates
  • Newspaper Columns
  • Sizewell C
  • e-campaigns

Support for Pubs

  • Tweet

Thank you for contacting me about support for pubs.

I recognise the role that pubs play in the social and economic life of our nation, as well in helping to promote responsible drinking, which is why I am encouraged by the support which the Government has made available to pubs.

Through the Asset of Community Value scheme, communities can list facilities of local importance, including pubs. This means that if a pub owner wishes to sell up, the community has six months to come up with a plan and funding in order to try to save it. I am glad that there are now around 2,000 pubs across England listed as assets of community value.

I am pleased that the £3.6 million ‘More than a Pub: The Community Business Support Programme’, launched in 2016, is helping to support communities across England to own their local pub. On top of this, the Government continues to support the work of the Pub is The Hub initiative to help landlords diversify and provide essential services, such as village shops and post offices, in order to improve the sustainability of their pub.

To further support pubs, the Chancellor announced in the Autumn Budget 2018 a freeze on beer, cider, and spirit duties, a decision which I welcome. The Spring Budget 2017 also provided a £1,000 discount on business rates bills in 2017 for pubs with a rateable value of less than £100,000 – 90 per cent of pubs in England – and I was pleased to see this extended in the Autumn Budget 2017 for a further year, through to March 2019. In addition, a one-third discount to business rates for pubs and bars with a rateable values below £51,000 was introduced in 2018.

30/10/2019

e-campaigns

  • Environmental Standards
  • Ocean Protection
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Hong Kong Protests
  • Women's State Pension Age
  • Assisted Dying
  • Chemical Farming
  • Christian Persecution
  • Gamebird Welfare
  • Horse Racing Welfare
  • Press Regulation
  • Shale Gas
  • Support for Pubs
  • Tibetan Rights
  • Ancient Woodland
  • Animal Cruelty Sentences
  • Auto-Visual Announcements on Buses
  • Bees and Neonicotinoids
  • Breast Cancer Now Campaign
  • Child Refugees and Dubs Amendment
  • EU (Withdrawal) Bill - Best for Britain Campaign
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Union Withdrawal Bill
  • Executive Pay
  • Factory Farming
  • Fracking
  • Green Investment Bank
  • Grenfell Tower
  • Heineken Takeover
  • Istanbul Convention
  • Ivory
  • Liberty Protection Safeguards
  • Make the Air Fair
  • Medical Cannabis
  • Microbeads
  • Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Kamal Foroughi
  • NHS Funding
  • Payday Lenders
  • Pensions Dashboard
  • People's Vote
  • Police Animals
  • Puppy Smuggling
  • Refugee Family Reunion
  • Road Safety
  • Sky and 21st Century Fox Takeover Bid
  • Taxation of the Beer and Pubs Sector
  • A-Level Grades
  • Food Standards Commission
  • Free School Meals Voucher
  • Free School Meals over the Summer Holidays
  • Hen Harriers
  • Internal Markets Bill
  • Migrant Crossings
  • NHS pay rise
  • Overseas Operations Bill
  • Planning Reform Proposals
  • Supertrawlers
  • ‘Don’t criminalise trespassing’

Thérèse Coffey Suffolk Coastal

Footer

  • About RSS
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • About Thérèse Coffey
  • Advice Surgeries
  • In Parliament
Site logo@Therese Coffey MP 2020
Copyright 2021 Thérèse Coffey Suffolk Coastal. All rights reserved.
Powered by Bluetree