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Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to (a) retail, (b) hospitality and (c) leisure business rates on high street businesses.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to (a) retail, (b) hospitality and (c) leisure business rates on high street businesses.
21 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
Without any government intervention, the current Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) relief would have ended entirely in April 2025, creating a cliff-edge for businesses. Instead, the Government has decided to offer a 40 per cent discount to RHL propert...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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