Question follow-through · 53288
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she make it her policy to introduce a new business rates system before the 2026-27 financial year.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she make it her policy to introduce a new business rates system before the 2026-27 financial year.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
Transforming the business rates system is a multi-year process, and reforms taken forward will be phased over the course of the Parliament to provide certainty for businesses and local government finance.Through these reforms, we will create a fairer busi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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