Question follow-through · 900940
Housing Revenue Accounts: Fiscal Policy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding the council Housing Revenue Account from debt-targeted fiscal rules.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding the council Housing Revenue Account from debt-targeted fiscal rules.
29 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
Councils’ Housing Revenue Accounts are a significant part of local authority and public sector finances, and it would not be right to exclude this activity from our fiscal rules.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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