Question follow-through · 102893
Hospitality Sector: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of its business rates policies on small hospitality businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 5 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of its business rates policies on small hospitality businesses.
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 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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