Question follow-through · 54222
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending business rates relief for small businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending business rates relief for small businesses.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2025
Answer published
Currently, Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) is available to businesses with a single property below a set rateable value. Eligible properties under £12,000 will receive 100 per cent relief, which means over a third of businesses in England (more than 700...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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