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Public Houses: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to increase Small Business Rate Relief thresholds to prevent closures of pubs.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
1 Dec 2025
Answer
5 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to increase Small Business Rate Relief thresholds to prevent closures of pubs.

  2. 1 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is delivering a long overdue reform to rebalance the business rates system and support the high street, as promised in the manifesto.The Government is doing this by introducing new permanently lower tax rates for eligible retail, hospitalit...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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