Question follow-through · 3977
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending business rates relief to small businesses that are not in the retail, hospitality or leisure sectors.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending business rates relief to small businesses that are not in the retail, hospitality or leisure sectors.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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2 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government has introduced new permanently lower multipliers for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties. These new multipliers are worth nearly £1 billion per year and benefit over 750,000 properties. Since these new multipliers were...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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