At recent meetings at County Hall, off the back of the Lib Dem campaign on Small Business Rate reductions, the Council managed to put together a letter to accompany all business rates bills and inviting businesses to get in touch for a reduction – Lib dem action is starting to make a difference. Next I will be checking up how many more businesses have taken up the small business rate and look at visiting those which have not. This could potentially keep tens of thousands of pounds in our area instead of in London.