Question follow-through · 120256

Pre-school Education: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to take steps to lower business rates on early years education settings.

answeredCameron ThomasTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
16 Mar 2026
Answer
19 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to take steps to lower business rates on early years education settings.

  2. 16 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    Business rates are a broad-based tax on the value of non-domestic properties, including early years education settings. At the Budget, the Government announced a £4.3 billion support package to support ratepayers across all sectors seeing bill increases. ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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