Question follow-through · 27610

Business: Inheritance Tax and Living Wage

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department plans to take to support family owned small and medium sized enterprises with changes in the level of (a) the National Living Wage and (b) Business Property Relief.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 30 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 3 Feb 2025
Answer: 7 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department plans to take to support family owned small and medium sized enterprises with changes in the level of (a) the National Living Wage and (b) Business Property Relief.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Feb 2025
Answer published
At Autumn Budget, the Government took a number of difficult but necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to restore economic stability, fix the public finances, and support public services. These were tough decisions given the situation we inheri...

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