Question follow-through · 65524
Cafes: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support local, independent coffee shops.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support local, independent coffee shops.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
Hospitality businesses, including independent coffee shops, are at the heart of our communities and play a vital role in supporting economic growth and community cohesion.The government plans to permanently lower business rates for retail, hospitality, an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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