Question follow-through · 22094
Business Rates: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Business Rates Multipliers: Qualifying Retail, Hospitality or Leisure, updated on 30 March 2026, for what policy reason (a) banking hubs and (b) cash machines on
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Business Rates Multipliers: Qualifying Retail, Hospitality or Leisure, updated on 30 March 2026, for what policy reason (a) banking hubs and (b) cash machines on
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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8 Sept 2026
Answer published
Banking hubs and cash machines are excluded because their primary function is the provision of financial services rather than retail, hospitality or leisure activity. Their location on a high street does not, in itself, bring them within the scope of the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Business Rates: Valuation
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Amusement Arcades: Business Rates
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Public Houses: Business Rates
1 Sept 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the answer of 10 April 2026, to Question 122709, if he will provide equivalent data, for the number of pubs with special category code 226 and 227, by local authority area, and their average Rateab
Regional Growth Fund
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Food: Sales
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Revenue and Customs: Secondment
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Business Rates
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Revenue and Customs: Freedom of Information
1 Sept 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the HMRC response to Freedom of Information Act request FOI2026/09619, of 11 June 2026.
Valuation Office Agency: ICT
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Valuation Office Agency: Staff
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