Written questions

Business Rates

Commons · Question 94679 · Tabled 26 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 4 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish an authority-level assessment of the 2026 business rates retention reset, including (a) the financial implications of increasing the Safety Net to 100 per cent

Answer

Answered by Alison McGovern, 4 Dec 2025

Local authorities’ new allocations, accounting for the impact of the Reset, will be published at the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement in December. The government has recently published plans for delivering the 2026 Reset: Resetting the busi...