Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 104726

Department for Education: Business Rates

Tabled: 12 January 2026

Answered: 27 February 2026

Named Day

Question

Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the change to the level of (a) payment and (b) reimbursement of business rates in (i) her Department and the (ii) Education and Skills Funding Agency between financial years (A) 20

Answer

Georgia Gould

Since April 2022, most schools’ business rates are paid directly by the department to billing authorities. If all billing authorities in the local authority have not agreed to this system, academies make business rates payments and are reimbursed by the d...

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