Question follow-through · 68799
Business Rates: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on the proportion of businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sector that will (a) not qualify for retail, hospitality and leisure relief and (b) pay a higher multiplie
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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 information her Department holds on the proportion of businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sector that will (a) not qualify for retail, hospitality and leisure relief and (b) pay a higher multiplie
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jul 2025
Answer published
At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government published a Discussion Paper setting out priority areas for business rates reform and invited industry to co-design a fairer business rates system. In summer, the Government will publish an interim report that sets ou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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