Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Act

Commons bill Government Bill 2025-26 Act of Parliament

Passed โ€” Royal Assent 3 April 2025
Sponsor
Angela Rayner (Labour)
+ 1 co-sponsor
  • Lord Khan of Burnley (Labour)
Introduced
13 November 2024
Royal Assent
3 April 2025
About this bill

A Bill to make provision for, and in connection with, the introduction of higher non-domestic rating multipliers as regards large business hereditaments, and lower non-domestic rating multipliers as regards retail, hospitality and leisure hereditaments, in England and for the removal of charitable relief from non-domestic rates for private schools in England.

Parliamentary stages

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Commons
โœ“ First reading 13 Nov 2024
โœ“ Second reading 25 Nov 2024โ†—
โœ“ Programme motion 25 Nov 2024
โœ“ Money resolution 25 Nov 2024
โœ“ Ways and Means resolution 25 Nov 2024
โœ“ Committee stage 11 Dec 2024โ†—
โœ“ Report stage 15 Jan 2025โ†—
โœ“ Third reading 15 Jan 2025โ†—
โœ“ Programme motion 25 Mar 2025
โœ“ Consideration Of Lords Amendments 25 Mar 2025โ†—
โœ“ Consideration Of Lords Message 31 Mar 2025โ†—
Lords
โœ“ First reading 16 Jan 2025
โœ“ Second reading 29 Jan 2025โ†—
โœ“ Committee stage 24 Feb 2025โ†—
โœ“ Report stage 18 Mar 2025โ†—
โœ“ Third reading 24 Mar 2025โ†—
โœ“ Consideration Of Commons Amendments And / Or Reasons 26 Mar 2025โ†—
โœ“ Consideration Of Commons Amendments And / Or Reasons 1 Apr 2025โ†—
Final stages
โœ“ Royal Assent 3 Apr 2025

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What this bill is about

From the Explanatory Notes (January 2025):

1 This Bill amends the non-domestic rating system in England to: a. enable the introduction of new multipliers (i.e. tax rates). The Bill introduces powers to create new lower multipliers for qualifying retail, hospitality and leisure properties and higher multipliers for the high value properties, and b. removes the eligibility of private schools that are charities for charitable business rates relief.
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