Question follow-through · 118575
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure the business rates system supports the regeneration of high streets.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 16 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure the business rates system supports the regeneration of high streets.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government has already started the work of reforming our business rates system by introducing new permanently lower multipliers for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties. These new multipliers will benefit over 750,000 properties.T...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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