Question follow-through · 46267
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to reform business rates to reduce the financial burden on small high street businesses.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to reform business rates to reduce the financial burden on small high street businesses.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government is creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century. At Autumn Budget 2024, we took the first step with the announcement of permanently lower tax rates for the Retai...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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