Written Question·Treasury·UIN 95110

Small Businesses: Business Rates

Tabled: 27 November 2025
Answered: 4 December 2025

Question

James Cartlidge

Conservative — South Suffolk

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the potential revenue effect to the public purse of increasing the Small Business Rates Relief threshold from £12,000 to £17,000 in 2026.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) is available to businesses with a single property below a set RV. Eligible property under £12,000 will receive 100 per cent relief, which means around a third of properties in England pay no business rates at all. There i...
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