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Hospitality Industry and Leisure: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the level of business rates relief for hospitality, leisure and entertainment businesses on such businesses.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 26 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 28 Nov 2024
Answer: 4 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the level of business rates relief for hospitality, leisure and entertainment businesses on such businesses.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
Without any government intervention, 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 properties up to a ...

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