Question follow-through · 64938

Holiday Accommodation: Business Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the tax revenue from ensuring compliance with rules on eligibility of short-term lets for business rates.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
7 Jul 2025
Answer
11 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the tax revenue from ensuring compliance with rules on eligibility of short-term lets for business rates.

  2. 7 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Before a short-term let can be assessed as a self-catering accommodation (short-term let) for business rates purposes it must have been available to let for at least 140 days in the past year and demonstrate at least 70 days of actual letting activity in ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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