Question follow-through · 26000
Post Offices: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider extending the 20% business rates relief for pubs and music venues to post offices.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider extending the 20% business rates relief for pubs and music venues to post offices.
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the important contribution that post offices make to local economies and communities through the services they provide to residents and businesses.Businesses continue to benefit from the Government's wider business rates reforms,...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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