Question follow-through · 61335
Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to enable upper-tier councils to increase council tax bills by a set amount rather than a fixed percentage through future reviews of local government funding.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to enable upper-tier councils to increase council tax bills by a set amount rather than a fixed percentage through future reviews of local government funding.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
As an important part of local democracy and accountability, it is for individual councils to set their own level of council tax. The Spending Review assumed 5% council tax increases over the period made up of a 3% core referendum principle and a 2% adult ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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