Question follow-through · 82148
Music Venues: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction in business rate relief on grassroots music venues with a rateable value of over £500,000.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction in business rate relief on grassroots music venues with a rateable value of over £500,000.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties with rateable values (RVs) below £500,000, including grassroots music venues, from 2026-27. This permanent ta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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