Saqib Bhatti MP: written questions 2025

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Written questions

Music Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22710More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of permanently reducing business rates for grassroots music venues.
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties from 2026-27 for properties with rateable values below £500,00. This permanent tax cut will ensure that...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
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Public Sector DebtTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22709More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increased borrowing costs on the UK's debt repayments.
Answer: The government does not comment on specific financial market movements. Gilt yields are determined by a wide range of international and domestic factors, and it is normal for the price and yields of gilts to vary when there are wider movements in global f...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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Investment Returns: MortgagesTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22708More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of higher bond yields on mortgage repayments.
Answer: The government does not comment on specific financial market movements. Gilt yields are determined by a wide range of international and domestic factors, and it is normal for the price and yields of gilts to vary when there are wider movements in global f...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament record
Public Sector DebtTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22707More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increased borrowing costs on the UK's debt repayments.
Answer: The government does not comment on specific financial market movements. Gilt yields are determined by a wide range of international and domestic factors, and it is normal for the price and yields of gilts to vary when there are wider movements in global f...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament record

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