Written Question·Treasury·UIN 15242

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

Tabled: 20 November 2024
Answered: 27 November 2024

Question

Paul Holmes

ConservativeHamble Valley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the additional revenue generated following the reduction of business rate relief from 75% to 40% for the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors in the 2025-26 financial year.

Answer

James Murray
Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) relief is a single year policy intervention. As such, the baseline scorecard assumption for 2025-26 was for RHL relief to not be extended. At Autumn Budget, the Government announced that from 2026-27, it intends to in...

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