Question follow-through · 7831
Public Houses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024, to Question 4354, on Public Houses: Business Rates, whether the introduction of a pub smoking ban would be deemed to be a material consideration for the purposes of calcu
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Hotels and Tourism: Taxation · 9 Oct 2024
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024, to Question 4354, on Public Houses: Business Rates, whether the introduction of a pub smoking ban would be deemed to be a material consideration for the purposes of calcu
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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15 Oct 2024
Answer published
Schedule 6 of The Local Government Finance Act 1988 states that no account is to be taken of any matter that is directly attributable to a change in legislation when determining a pub’s rateable value.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hotels and Tourism: Taxation
9 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to allow local authorities to levy (a) hotel and (b) tourist taxes.
Business Rates and Council Tax: Valuation
9 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of asking the Valuation Office Agency to develop an automated valuation model for calculating (a) council tax and (b) business rates valuations in England.