Retail Trade: Business Rates
Commons · Question 97250 · Tabled 4 Dec 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Greg Smith
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.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 11 Dec 2025
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...