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Business Rate Supplements Bill

My hon. Friend is making his speech in his usual highly articulate way, but he is being too kind to the Government, although not to the Minister. The problem is certainly not her fault: she is new. Is it not the case that, having paid a rebate to the port employers, the Department's Treasury colleagues are now saying, "You cannot let these port rating people"—the unfortunate small businesses in ports, many of which are competing with their landlords—"off the hook"?