Question follow-through · 87713
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will lower business rates for (a) high street businesses, (b) businesses without a physical storefront on a street and (c) other small and medium sized businesses.
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 lower business rates for (a) high street businesses, (b) businesses without a physical storefront on a street and (c) other small and medium sized businesses.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government is creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century. As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospital...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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