Question follow-through · 97280
Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy to use the business rates system to help support high street businesses in the context of their competition with online retailers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy to use the business rates system to help support high street businesses in the context of their competition with online retailers.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 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 our manifesto. The Government is doing this by introducing permanently lower tax rates for eligible retail, hospitality a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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