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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...