Question follow-through · 74391
Council Tax: Non-payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to remove the sanction of imprisonment for non-payment of Council Tax in England as part of wider proposed sentencing reforms.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
- Council Tax: Reform · 23 Mar 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to remove the sanction of imprisonment for non-payment of Council Tax in England as part of wider proposed sentencing reforms.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The sanction of imprisonment for non-payment of council tax only applies where the court is satisfied that non-payment is due to wilful refusal to pay or culpable neglect. A person cannot be imprisoned for being unable to pay their council tax. The govern...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Council Tax: Reform
23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the Government’s response to the Modernising and improving the administration of council tax consultation, and if he will make a statement confirming the
Council Tax: Arrears
23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the findings of the Money Advice Trust’s Lost in the system report; and if he will make a statement.