Question follow-through · 40774
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will ensure that the proposed higher business rates multiplier for properties with a rateable value of £500,000 or more is index-linked.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will ensure that the proposed higher business rates multiplier for properties with a rateable value of £500,000 or more is index-linked.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27. This tax cut must be sustainably funded, and so the Government intends to apply a higher ra...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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