Question follow-through · 84123
Housing: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government will consider introducing VAT relief on construction costs for sub-market housing developments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government will consider introducing VAT relief on construction costs for sub-market housing developments.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services; this includes most construction works. Exceptions to the standard rate have always been limited and balanced against affordability considerations...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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