Question follow-through · 56393
Markets: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to reduce business rates for the owners and tenants of buildings containing market stalls.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax · 9 Jun 2025
- Business Rates: Market Towns · 12 Jun 2025
- Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax · 13 Jun 2025
- Taxation: Repayments · 5 Sept 2025
- Self-assessment · 5 Sept 2025
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to reduce business rates for the owners and tenants of buildings containing market stalls.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
Business rates are paid by the occupiers of commercial properties. In the event a property is unoccupied, the property owner is liable for the property’s business rates bill. To deliver our manifesto pledge, we intend to introduce permanently lower tax ra...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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