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Public Houses: Business Rates

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 1 July 2026UIN 12175

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 13 January 2026 to Question 102817 on Public Houses: Business Rates, in which dataset and table number is the requested information provided by billing authority area for (a) 226 and (b) 227 special category codes.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

The Valuation Office Agency published data comparing changes between the 2023 non-domestic rating lists and 2026 draft non-domestic rating lists on GOV.UK.

These statistics were released alongside the publication of the 2026 draft list.

They contain information about changes in the mean Rateable Value of public houses (RVL_5 _1, Row 13) and changes by administrative area (RVL_2_1). A data set collating the two is not published.

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