Written Question·Treasury·UIN 118191
Business Rates: Uprating
Tabled: 5 March 2026
Answered: 13 March 2026
Question
Sir James Cleverly
Conservative — Braintree
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 6 February 2026 to Question 109143 on Business Rate: Uprating, what the evidential basis is for the business rate system raising the same amount of revenue as was forecast before the Spring
Answer
Dan TomlinsonBusiness rates receipts are forecast independently by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).The previous answer that the business rates system will raise the same amount of revenue in the coming year as was forecast before the Spring Budget 2025 is b...
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