Oral Question·Treasury
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 3 September 2025Answered: 9 September 2025
Asked by
Helen Morgan
Liberal Democrat — North Shropshire
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
James Murray
As set out at the last Budget, we will introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses with rateable values below £500,000. The relief that we inherited from the previous Government was due to end entirely in April of this year. We extended it for one year to give us time to legislate for permanently lower tax cuts for pubs across this country.