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Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of businesses closing and vanishing from high streets on councils seeking payment of business rate liabilities.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
17 Nov 2025
Answer
21 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of businesses closing and vanishing from high streets on councils seeking payment of business rate liabilities.

  2. 17 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 21 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Business rates are an important source of funding for services local Government provides. A fair business rates system is one in which everyone pays their shareAs announced at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates f...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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