The significant increase in business rates being faced by some forecourt operators has prompted a question to be asked in parliament.
Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday March 9, Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, referred to Oliver Blake’s 500% increase in the rateable value of his family’s Oasis Service Station in Long Riston, asking:
“May the Secretary of State perhaps come up to Long Riston in my constituency and go to Oasis Services where I went on Friday. They’ve got a fivefold increase in their business rates, as well as the impact of the increase of more than £4,000 in hiring a young person.”
The MP visited Oasis Services after Blake reached out to him over the rise, which has been brought about by a combination of covid rate relief ending, and the government’s Valuation Office Agency’s revaluation of business properties’ rateable values, which occurs every three years.
