2026/27 rates, England, Scotland and Wales
Hospitality business rates
In England a pub, restaurant or hotel below £51,000 rateable value now pays the small business retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p in the pound, and 43p from £51,000 to £499,999. Eligible pubs and live music venues also get 15% off their 2026/27 bill. Scotland gives licensed hospitality up to 40% relief and Wales 15%. Tell us about your premises and Joe will talk it through.
Source: GOV.UK: calculate your business rates (multipliers 2026 to 2027)
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38.2p
small business RHL multiplier in England, RV below £51,000
GOV.UK: calculate your business rates (multipliers 2026 to 2027) -
15%
off 2026/27 bills for eligible pubs and live music venues in England
GOV.UK: pubs and live music venues relief, local authority guidance -
40%
relief for eligible licensed hospitality in Scotland, capped at £110,000
Renfrewshire Council: hospitality rates relief
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UK Hospitality Rates Rules
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Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 2 of 22 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people advertise.
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 22 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 20 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in pence (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 8 figures, never sentences; 173 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): per nation and rateable value band the multiplier, each relief (RHL multiplier eligibility, pubs and live music venues relief, transitional relief and its supplement, Supporting Small Business, small business rate relief; Scotland's RHL and licensed hospitality reliefs and poundages; Wales's food and drink hospitality relief), the order they apply in and the bill they produce for a worked rateable value
| Provider | Published figure | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOV.UK: calculate your business rates | 48 pence | 2026-10-28 | GOV.UK: calculate your business rates |
| GOV.UK: calculate your business rates | 43.2 pence | 2026-10-28 | GOV.UK: calculate your business rates |
| GOV.UK: calculate your business rates | 43 pence | 2026-10-28 | GOV.UK: calculate your business rates |
| GOV.UK: calculate your business rates | 38.2 pence | 2026-10-28 | GOV.UK: calculate your business rates |
| GOV.UK: calculate your business rates | 50.8 pence | 2026-10-28 | GOV.UK: calculate your business rates |
| City of Edinburgh: business rates charges 2026/27 | 48.1 pence | 2026-10-28 | City of Edinburgh: business rates charges 2026/27 |
| City of Edinburgh: business rates charges 2026/27 | 53.5 pence | 2026-10-28 | City of Edinburgh: business rates charges 2026/27 |
| City of Edinburgh: business rates charges 2026/27 | 54.8 pence | 2026-10-28 | City of Edinburgh: business rates charges 2026/27 |
| Effects of the RHL multipliers and high-value multiplier | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Effects of the RHL multipliers and high-value multiplier |
| Pubs and live music venues relief: local authority guidance | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Pubs and live music venues relief: local authority guidance |
| GOV.UK: transitional relief | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | GOV.UK: transitional relief |
| GOV.UK: small business rate relief | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | GOV.UK: small business rate relief |
| GOV.UK: business rate relief | publishes no price | 2026-10-24 | GOV.UK: business rate relief |
| GOV.UK: introduction to business rates | publishes no price | 2026-10-24 | GOV.UK: introduction to business rates |
| Business rates guidance for pubs and licensed trade | publishes no price | 2026-10-27 | Business rates guidance for pubs and licensed trade |
| Camden: business rates multipliers 2026/27 | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Camden: business rates multipliers 2026/27 |
| Bristol: changes to multipliers from 2026 | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Bristol: changes to multipliers from 2026 |
| Manchester: RHL multipliers 2026/27 | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Manchester: RHL multipliers 2026/27 |
| Mansfield: 2026 multipliers | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Mansfield: 2026 multipliers |
| Mid Sussex: multiplier changes 2026 | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Mid Sussex: multiplier changes 2026 |
- The median published figure is 48.05 pence across 8 readings, with the middle half between 43.05 pence and 52.83 pence. (UK Hospitality Rates Rules: every row, with its source)
- 2 of 22 providers read publish a price at all; 20 publish none. (UK Hospitality Rates Rules: every row, with its source)
- The cheapest published figure is 38.20 pence, by GOV.UK: calculate your business rates. (GOV.UK: calculate your business rates)
- The dearest published figure is 54.80 pence, by City of Edinburgh: business rates charges 2026/27. (City of Edinburgh: business rates charges 2026/27)
Cite this page
“UK Hospitality Rates Rules”, Hospitality business rates, https://hospitalitybusinessrates.co.uk/ (updated 2026-10-28). Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 22 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 20 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in pence (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 8 figures, never sentences; 173 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): per nation and rateable value band the multiplier, each relief (RHL multiplier eligibility, pubs and live music venues relief, transitional relief and its supplement, Supporting Small Business, small business rate relief; Scotland's RHL and licensed hospitality reliefs and poundages; Wales's food and drink hospitality relief), the order they apply in and the bill they produce for a worked rateable value
Go deeper
Sourced, dated, kept current.
Hospitality business rates in England 2026/27: multipliers and reliefs
The 2026/27 business rates multipliers and reliefs for English hospitality: RHL multipliers, pubs relief, small business rate relief and transitional caps.
Hospitality rates relief in Scotland and Wales for 2026/27
Scotland gives licensed hospitality up to 40% rates relief in 2026/27 and Wales 15% food and drink hospitality relief, both capped at £110,000 a business.
Business rates multipliers 2026/27: every rate, with its source
Every 2026/27 business rates multiplier and poundage for hospitality in England and Scotland, read from GOV.UK and council pages on 28 October 2026.
Straight answers
What business rates does a pub or restaurant pay in 2026/27?
In England, 38.2p in the pound below £51,000 rateable value and 43p from £51,000 to £499,999, before reliefs. Eligible pubs and live music venues then get 15% off. (GOV.UK: calculate your business rates (multipliers 2026 to 2027))
Is there business rates relief for pubs in 2026?
Yes. Eligible pubs and live music venues in England get a 15% reduction on 2026/27 bills, and bills are to be frozen in real terms for the following two years. (GOV.UK: pubs and live music venues relief, local authority guidance)
What relief does hospitality get in Scotland?
15% retail, hospitality and leisure relief plus 25% for eligible licensed hospitality and music venues up to £100,000 rateable value: 40%, capped at £110,000 per business per year. (Renfrewshire Council: hospitality rates relief)
Where do these figures come from, and when were they read?
From GOV.UK, the VOA and council pages, read on 28 October 2026 and stored with a hash of the page text. (UK hospitality rates multipliers: every row, with its source)
Who answers an enquiry from this page?
Joe, who runs this site, reads every enquiry himself and replies directly. No rating agent or firm receives your details. He gives information, never tax advice.
Sources
This site's own dataset, every figure quoted from its source and dated:
- The UK Hospitality Rates Rules carries 8 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 38.20 to 54.80 pence, read 28 October 2026.
- GOV.UK: calculate your business rates
- Effects of the RHL multipliers and high-value multiplier
- Pubs and live music venues relief: local authority guidance
- GOV.UK: transitional relief
- GOV.UK: small business rate relief
- GOV.UK: business rate relief
- GOV.UK: introduction to business rates
- Business rates guidance for pubs and licensed trade