Question follow-through · 69149
Second Homes: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are correctly implementing the council tax premium on second homes.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are correctly implementing the council tax premium on second homes.
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jul 2025
Answer published
The second homes council tax premiums is not a mandatory requirement, and it is for individual councils to decide whether to make use of a premium. However, where councils apply a premium, they are required to implement this in line with the relevant regu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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