Question follow-through · 129344
Gyms and Leisure: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the business rates relief given to pubs to independent gyms and other leisure businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the business rates relief given to pubs to independent gyms and other leisure businesses.
28 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
Pubs rents in business rates valuations are analysed differently to some other sectors. While most hospitality and leisure properties are valued by comparing the size of the property, pubs are valued by comparing their turnover potential. Industry bodies ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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