Question follow-through · 4444
Council Tax: Single People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the removal of the single-person council tax discount on (a) under-thirties and (b) pensioners.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the removal of the single-person council tax discount on (a) under-thirties and (b) pensioners.
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government currently has no plans to reform council tax. Decisions on future local authority funding will be a matter for the next Spending Review and Local Government Finance Settlement in which we are engaged.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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