| Heading: |
Markets: Business Rates |
| Question ID: |
1808162 |
| UIN: |
56393 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4934 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Helen Morgan
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| Asking Member handle: |
helenmorganmp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@helenmorganmp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to reduce business rates for the owners and tenants of buildings containing market stalls. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4077 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Reynolds
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| Answering Member handle: |
emmaforwycombe
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@emmaforwycombe
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| Answer text: |
Business rates are paid by the occupiers of commercial properties. In the event a property is unoccupied, the property owner is liable for the property’s business rates bill. To deliver our manifesto pledge, we intend to introduce permanently lower tax ra... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |