Question follow-through · 106109
Betting Shops
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2025 on licensed betting offices; and whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local G
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2025 on licensed betting offices; and whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local G
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2026
Answer published
In October 2024, the Government laid a statutory instrument defining the retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties that will be eligible for new, lower business rates multipliers from April 2026. Since they were announced at Budget 2024, the Govern...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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