Question follow-through · 100201
Leisure and Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department has taken to explore alternatives to business rates for retail, hospitality and leisure premises; and whether she has considered implementing a Commercial Landowner Levy based on land value
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department has taken to explore alternatives to business rates for retail, hospitality and leisure premises; and whether she has considered implementing a Commercial Landowner Levy based on land value
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 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 new permanently lower tax rates for eligible retail, hospitali...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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