Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 29 May 2026, to Question 1182, on Business Rates: Canary Wharf, what is his Department's policy on the provision of business rate relief to individual firms.

Local authorities are responsible for the administration of the business rates system including decisions on the award of business rates reliefs in line with relief eligibility.

Local authorities also have discretionary powers to grant business rates relief to ratepayers in their area under Section 47 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, having regard to the interests of their council taxpayers.