Oral Question·Treasury
“What assessment she has made of the adequacy of the affordability of business rates for small and medium-sized enterprises.”
Tabled: 29 October 2025Answered: 4 November 2025
Asked by
Siân Berry
Green Party — Brighton Pavilion
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray)
More than 700,000 small businesses across the UK pay no business rates at all as they receive 100% small business rate relief. We are transforming business rates over this Parliament. We are cutting bureaucracy, too—removing the need for the owners of small businesses such as family-run cafés to submit pages and pages of directors’ reports to Companies House.