Question follow-through · 103890

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 30 of her Department's publication entitled HMT Budget 2025: Policy Costings, published in November 2025, and to the Answer of 18 November 2025, to Question 88672 on Business Rates: Tax Allowa

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Tabled
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
12 Jan 2026
Answer
15 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 7 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 30 of her Department's publication entitled HMT Budget 2025: Policy Costings, published in November 2025, and to the Answer of 18 November 2025, to Question 88672 on Business Rates: Tax Allowa

  2. 12 Jan 2026

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  3. 15 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The Government is introducing new permanently lower tax rates for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties. These new tax rates are worth nearly £900 million per year and will benefit over 750,000 properties. The new RHL tax rates replace...

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