Question follow-through · 70080
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to speed up the revaluation process for business rates when commercial units are subdivided into smaller premises.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2025 · 44 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to speed up the revaluation process for business rates when commercial units are subdivided into smaller premises.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2025
Answer published
The VOA is focused on speeding up its service by upskilling its workforce so they can handle multiple types of cases, improving its digital services to make it easier for customers to self-serve, recruiting new people and moving existing staff to better m...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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