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Business Rates

Asked by David SimmondsConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 9 December 2025UIN 95892

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to paragraph 4.38 of the OBR, Economic and Fiscal Outlook, November 2025, CP1439, 26 November 2025, whether according to information held by HM Treasury, the 10.2 per cent increase in business rate receipts

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

This figure applies to the United Kingdom.

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