RATE RELIEF FOR VILLAGE PUBS
- Session: 1999-00
- Date tabled: 12.01.2000
- Primary sponsor:
- Sponsors:
That this House notes from the recent survey of the Countryside Agency and BBC televsion's Countryfile programme that up to six rural pubs are now shutting every week; regards the village pub as an important focal point for rural community life; and urges the Government to extend 50 per cent. mandatory rate relief to village pubs on the same basis as that enjoyed by village post offices and village stores.