Question follow-through · 13387
Nurseries: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will exempt nurseries in England from business rates.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will exempt nurseries in England from business rates.
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2024
Answer published
At the Budget in October, the Government committed to increasing spending on early years and family services to over £8 billion in 2025-26. This includes an additional £1.8 billion which will be paid to early years providers to continue the expansion of g...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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