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Business Rates: Public Houses

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to introduce a permanent reduction in business rates for pubs.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
3 Apr 2025
Answer
9 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 1 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to introduce a permanent reduction in business rates for pubs.

  2. 3 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    We intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties, including pubs, with rateable values below £500,000 from 2026-27, and fund this by introducing a higher multiplier on properties with rateable values ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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