Written Question·Treasury·UIN 87326
Business Rates: Local Press
Tabled: 3 November 2025
Answered: 11 November 2025
Question
Sir James Cleverly
Conservative — Braintree
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 75616 on Business Rates: Local Press, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of the relief for local newspapers in the 2024-25 financial year; and w
Answer
Dan TomlinsonFrom April 2017 to 31 March 2025, Eligible newspapers received a £1,500 reduction in their business rates liabilities. This discount applied up to a maximum of one discount per local newspaper title and per property. The previous government took the decis...
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