Small Businesses: Business Rates
Commons · Question 87713 · Tabled 4 Nov 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Mark Pritchard
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will lower business rates for (a) high street businesses, (b) businesses without a physical storefront on a street and (c) other small and medium sized businesses.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 13 Nov 2025
The Government is creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century. As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospital...