United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 97250
Retail Trade: Business Rates
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4 December 2025
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11 December 2025 · Answer
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11 December 2025
Summary
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy to use the business rates system to help support high street businesses in the context of their competition with online retailers.
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4 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy to use the business rates system to help support high street businesses in the context of their competition with online retailers.
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11 December 2025
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The Government is delivering a long overdue reform to rebalance the business rates system and support the high street, as promised in our manifesto. The Government is doing this by introducing permanently lower tax rates for eligible retail, hospitality a...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-04/97250
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1860489
- uk · wq-1860489 · source updated 11 December 2025