Written Question·Treasury·UIN 104785

Business Rates: Uprating

Tabled: 12 January 2026

Answered: 20 January 2026

Question

Paul Holmes

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the numeric value of the (a) Retail, Hospitality and Leisure and (b) high value multipliers will be (i) uprated by inflation each year within the 2026 revaluation cycle based on the previous values for both

Answer

Dan Tomlinson

The national multipliers uprate by the previous September’s CPI figure every April before resetting at a revaluation, which occurs every three years. This is the standard approach, as multipliers are uprated yearly with CPI. The Retail, Hospitality and Le...

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