Question follow-through · 25552
Listed Buildings: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking legislative steps to provide VAT relief on the rethatching of listed buildings.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking legislative steps to provide VAT relief on the rethatching of listed buildings.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
To preserve heritage, restorative work carried out on listed buildings previously benefited from a zero rate of VAT. However, this relief was abolished in 2012, as it was primarily used to carry out extension work unnecessary for heritage purposes. Withdr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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