Question follow-through · 104726
Department for Education: Business Rates
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the change to the level of (a) payment and (b) reimbursement of business rates in (i) her Department and the (ii) Education and Skills Funding Agency between financial years (A) 20
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2026 · 46 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the change to the level of (a) payment and (b) reimbursement of business rates in (i) her Department and the (ii) Education and Skills Funding Agency between financial years (A) 20
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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27 Feb 2026
Answer published
Since April 2022, most schools’ business rates are paid directly by the department to billing authorities. If all billing authorities in the local authority have not agreed to this system, academies make business rates payments and are reimbursed by the d...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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