Question follow-through · 101364
Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy that the business rates system should level the playing field between high street businesses and online retailers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy that the business rates system should level the playing field between high street businesses and online retailers.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2026
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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