Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 20 February 2026, to Question 111680, on Small Businesses: Business Rates, if he will make it his policy to publish a Plain English guide to claiming and calculating business rate relief, modelled on the document entitled Paying the right level of Council Tax: a plain English guide to Council Tax, originally published in May 2019.

Information on the range, type and value of reliefs available to ratepayers in England is already published on gov.uk and can be found here. The gov.uk pages are prepared to be accessible to all ratepayers and businesses.