Alex Lim currently leads MHCLG’s responsibilities around business rates tax policy, focused in particular on the overall administration of the system through local government, and on interactions with the wider local government finance system. Prior to this role he undertook a number of civil service roles covering health and social care, reforms to the audit system for local public bodies, and neighbourhood regeneration. Before joining the civil service, he worked at Tower Hamlets Council and for a small regeneration consultancy in London.