Question follow-through · 24325
Hospitality Sector: Government Assistance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support the hospitality industry; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending VAT for that sector.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support the hospitality industry; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending VAT for that sector.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2025
Answer published
As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower business rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27. Ahead of these changes being made, the Governm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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