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Business Rates: Valuation

Asked by Bob BlackmanConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 12 January 2026UIN 102749

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date the Valuation Office Agency provided Ministers with its final advice relating to the 2026 business rates revaluation.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) published the draft 2026 Rating List on 26 November 2025 and regularly provided Ministers with advice on progress up to that date.

The VOA provides advice throughout each stage of a revaluation and will continue to do so in the lead up to, and following, the publication of the compiled 2026 Rating List on 1 April 2026.

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