Question follow-through · 791
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered introducing tapered arrangements for Rural Rate Relief to mitigate the loss of relief where rateable values increase marginally above the eligibility threshold.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 22 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered introducing tapered arrangements for Rural Rate Relief to mitigate the loss of relief where rateable values increase marginally above the eligibility threshold.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2026
Answer published
Rural Rate Relief (RRR) provides 100 per cent business rates relief for certain properties that are based in eligible rural areas with populations below 3,000.At the Budget, the Valuation Office announced updated property values from the 2026 revaluation....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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