Question follow-through · 36648
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the level of business rates on businesses over the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the level of business rates on businesses over the last five years.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2025
Answer published
Business rates are devolved. In England, local authorities reported that the gross non-domestic rates income for 2023-24 was £33 billion.At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced that it intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for RHL prope...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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