Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business Rates
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of businesses currently eligible for retail, hospitality and leisure relief have a normal business rates liability of £110,000 or less.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
Eligible retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties benefit from 40 per cent business rates relief up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business in 2025/26.
MHCLG publish data on the number of properties benefitting from RHL relief.
As business rates are administered by individual Local Authorities on a per-property basis, the Government does not hold data on how many and what proportion of businesses currently eligible for RHL relief have a total business rates liability of £110,000 or less.
In April 2026, the Government is introducing permanently lower business rates multipliers for RHL properties with rateable values below £500,000.
Unlike the current RHL business rates relief, there will be no cash cap, meaning that all eligible RHL properties in a chain will qualify for the lower multipliers.
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