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Nurseries: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing Business Rates relief to nurseries.

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Treasury
Tabled
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
27 Mar 2025
Answer
2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing Business Rates relief to nurseries.

  2. 27 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The early years system has a central role to play in driving economic growth and breaking down barriers to opportunity, which is why the Government wants to make childcare more affordable and accessible. At the Budget in October, the Government committed ...

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