Question follow-through · 104471
Hospitality Industry: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the costs to the exchequer of reducing VAT for hospitality businesses to (a) 15%, (b) 10%, (c) 5% and (d) 0%.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the costs to the exchequer of reducing VAT for hospitality businesses to (a) 15%, (b) 10%, (c) 5% and (d) 0%.
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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19 Jan 2026
Answer published
HMRC estimates that the cost of reducing the 20 per cent Standard Rate of VAT on all accommodation and food and beverage services would be as follows in 2026-27: (a) to 15%: £5 billion, (b) to 10%: £10.5 billion, (c) to 5%: £17 billion, (d) to 0%: £23.5 b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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