Question follow-through · 77248
Second Homes: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing local authority discretion to waive the Council Tax premium on second homes in cases where the second proper
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
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- Unadopted Roads · 10 Oct 2025
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Recorded timeline
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing local authority discretion to waive the Council Tax premium on second homes in cases where the second proper
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
Decisions on whether to apply council tax premiums are a matter for individual councils. Where a council chooses to implement a premium, they have the discretionary power to set their own local exceptions to premiums, or provide discounts where they consi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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