Public Houses: Business Rates
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 20 April 2026, to Question 124761, on Public Houses: Business Rates, how the hereditament-level data differs from the hereditament and special category code data in the published 2026 Rating List; and who is the Data Usage Agreement with.
Answered by Alison McGovern
The hereditament level rateable value data and SCat code information is consistent between the published Valuation Office (VO) Rating List and the data held by my department. The data held by my department are provided by the VO to MHCLG ahead of publication for the purpose of estimating the impact of updates to the list on reliefs and to assess the interaction with business rates relief policy. The data are anonymised to protect taxpayer confidentiality but include additional information on geography, such as region and rural-urban classification, and whether business are part of a group or chain.
The VO Rating List download page is available: https://voaratinglists.blob.core.windows.net/html/rlidata.htm.
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