Betting Shops: Business Rates
Commons · Question 106106 · Tabled 15 Jan 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 22 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Mary Glindon
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Budget 2025: Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Factsheet, published on 28 November 2025, for what reason licensed betting offices are classified as financial servic
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 22 Jan 2026
In October 2024, the Government laid a statutory instrument defining the retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties that will be eligible for new, lower business rates multipliers from April 2026. Since they were announced at Budget 2024, the Govern...