Question follow-through · 87711
Business: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will commit not to introduce any new taxes which increase the cost of doing business.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will commit not to introduce any new taxes which increase the cost of doing business.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
At the Budget on 26 November, the government will continue to deliver on the priorities of the British people: cutting NHS waiting lists, cutting the national debt and cutting the cost of living. There will be no return to austerity and we will end the un...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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