Question follow-through · 9774
Hospitality Industry: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the potential impact of reducing VAT to 10 per cent for food and beverage hospitality businesses on revenue to her Department.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the potential impact of reducing VAT to 10 per cent for food and beverage hospitality businesses on revenue to her Department.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2026
Answer published
At £90,000, the UK has the second highest registration threshold among all 38 OECD countries, which keeps the majority of businesses outside the VAT system. VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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