Question follow-through · 113758
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the average percentage change in business rates liabilities for small businesses such as bakeries, cafés, hotels and dry cleaners between 2026 and 2029.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the average percentage change in business rates liabilities for small businesses such as bakeries, cafés, hotels and dry cleaners between 2026 and 2029.
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2026
Answer published
The amount of business rates paid on each property is based on the rateable value of the property, assessed by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), and the multiplier values, which are set by the Government. Rateable values are re-assessed every three years...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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