Question follow-through · 27441
Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria her Department has for determining whether businesses make a positive contribution to local communities.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 7 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria her Department has for determining whether businesses make a positive contribution to local communities.
9 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government has announced it will review business rates reliefs for businesses not making a positive contribution to local communities, such as vape shops. Further details will be set out in due course.
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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