Question follow-through · 24697
Fire and Rescue Services: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting fire services from business rates at the next fiscal event.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting fire services from business rates at the next fiscal event.
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
Certain properties are exempt from business rates. Details on exemptions can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief/exempt-properties. Any decisions on future tax policy will be announced by the Chancellor at a fiscal event.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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