Question follow-through · 32540
Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to business rates on high street retailers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 28 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to business rates on high street retailers.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Feb 2025
Answer published
As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including those on the high street, from 2026-27. This permanent tax cut will ensure that they benefit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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