Question follow-through · 57514
Religious Buildings: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the UK’s exit from the EU on levels of VAT for (a) repairs and (b) maintenance payments for places of worship.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the UK’s exit from the EU on levels of VAT for (a) repairs and (b) maintenance payments for places of worship.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jun 2025
Answer published
VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. VAT is the UK’s second largest tax, forecast to raise £180.4 billion in 2025/26. Taxation is a vital source of revenue that helps to fund vital p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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