Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to support cafés and other hospitality businesses.

The Government is backing cafes and other hospitality businesses with a package which means that all retail, hospitality and leisure properties in England will see their business rates either frozen in real terms, reduced, or cut to zero.

The package includes a two-year real-terms freeze for all retail, hospitality and leisure properties to cap bill increases at inflation; and removing 70,000 extra properties from business rates, meaning half of all RHL properties will now pay no business rates at all.