Written Question·Treasury·UIN 94032

Quarrying: Costs

Tabled: 24 November 2025
Answered: 2 December 2025

Question

John Lamont

ConservativeBerwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review (a) tax and (b) energy cost burdens facing small quarrying businesses in rural constituencies.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
The government keeps all tax under review as part of the policy making process. The government is bearing down on business energy prices more widely by reducing Great Britain’s reliance on volatile international gas prices, and through a new framework to ...

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