Question follow-through · 64351
Beer and Public Houses: Business Rates and Employers' Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the cumulative impact of changes to (a) business rates and (b) employer National Insurance contributions on the financial viability of (i) pubs and (ii) breweries.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the cumulative impact of changes to (a) business rates and (b) employer National Insurance contributions on the financial viability of (i) pubs and (ii) breweries.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
From 2026-27, we intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties with rateable values below £500,000. This permanent tax cut will ensure that eligible RHL businesses benefit from much-needed certainty ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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