Question follow-through · 109276

Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the cost of (a) the potential business rates relief for pubs and (b) the cost of extending this relief to (i) the hospitality sector and (ii) the retail sector.

answeredHelen MorganTreasury

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 28 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 2 Feb 2026
Answer: 6 Feb 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the cost of (a) the potential business rates relief for pubs and (b) the cost of extending this relief to (i) the hospitality sector and (ii) the retail sector.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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6 Feb 2026
Answer published
From April, every pub and live music venue will get 15% off its new business rates bill on top of the support announced at Budget and then bills will be frozen in real terms for a further two years.Final costings will be confirmed at a fiscal event in the...

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