United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 87326
Business Rates: Local Press
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3 November 2025
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11 November 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 75616 on Business Rates: Local Press, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of the relief for local newspapers in the 2024-25 financial year; and w
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3 November 2025
Written question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 75616 on Business Rates: Local Press, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of the relief for local newspapers in the 2024-25 financial year; and w
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11 November 2025
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From April 2017 to 31 March 2025, Eligible newspapers received a £1,500 reduction in their business rates liabilities. This discount applied up to a maximum of one discount per local newspaper title and per property. The previous government took the decis...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-11-03/87326
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1847700
- uk · wq-1847700 · source updated 11 November 2025