Written Question·Treasury·UIN 90380

Business Rates

Tabled: 12 November 2025
Answered: 21 November 2025

Question

Dr Luke Evans

ConservativeHinckley and Bosworth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of businesses closing and vanishing from high streets on councils seeking payment of business rate liabilities.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
Business rates are an important source of funding for services local Government provides. A fair business rates system is one in which everyone pays their shareAs announced at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates f...

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