Question follow-through · 6311
Council Tax: Single People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of single-person council tax reduction recipients that are pensioners.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of single-person council tax reduction recipients that are pensioners.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government has not historically collected data on the individual characteristics of residents of households receiving a single person council tax discount.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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