Question follow-through · 90166
Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of businesses currently eligible for retail, hospitality and leisure relief have a normal business rates liability of £110,000 or less.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Spring Statement · 2 Dec 2025
- Business Rates: Tax Allowances · 15 Dec 2025
- Inheritance Tax · 17 Dec 2025
- Public Expenditure · 2 Jan 2026
- Office for Budget Responsibility: Forecasts · 6 Jan 2026
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- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of businesses currently eligible for retail, hospitality and leisure relief have a normal business rates liability of £110,000 or less.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
Eligible retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties benefit from 40 per cent business rates relief up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business in 2025/26. MHCLG publish data on the number of properties benefitting from RHL relief. As business rates ar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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