Question follow-through · 96839
Hospitality Industry: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what engagement she undertook with the pub and hospitality sector ahead of the 2025 Budget, particularly in the context of Business Rates.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what engagement she undertook with the pub and hospitality sector ahead of the 2025 Budget, particularly in the context of Business Rates.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2025
Answer published
Treasury Ministers and officials engaged with a wide range of stakeholders across the pub and hospitality sector ahead of the Budget to discuss business rates.We continue to engage with the hospitality sector to understand the pressures they face.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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