Question follow-through · 33584
Hospitality Industry: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the resilience of the independent hospitality sector to absorb the rising costs of (a) national Insurance, (b) alcohol duty, (c) energy prices
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the resilience of the independent hospitality sector to absorb the rising costs of (a) national Insurance, (b) alcohol duty, (c) energy prices
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
The government will protect the smallest businesses and charities by increasing the Employment Allowance to £10,500. This means that in 2025/26, 865,000 employers (43%) will pay no National Insurance Contributions at all.The alcohol duty cut on qualifying...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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