Question follow-through · 68735
Food and Drinks: Wholesale Trade
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of her Department's plan to introduce a higher multiplier on properties with rateable value of £500,000 and above on the food and drink wholesale sector.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of her Department's plan to introduce a higher multiplier on properties with rateable value of £500,000 and above on the food and drink wholesale sector.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jul 2025
Answer published
To deliver our manifesto pledge, from April 2026, we intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for high street retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties with rateable values (RVs) below £500,000. This tax cut must be sustainably funded, and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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