Question follow-through · 106054
Public Houses and Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the financial impact of business rates increases on (a) pubs and (b) retail businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the financial impact of business rates increases on (a) pubs and (b) retail businesses.
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to UIN 101363.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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