Question follow-through · 98953
Public Houses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support pubs with increases in their business rates bills.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support pubs with increases in their business rates bills.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The amount of business rates paid on each property is based on the rateable value of the property, assessed by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), and the multiplier values, which are set by the Government. Rateable values are re-assessed every three years...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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