Question follow-through · 84951

Deputy Prime Minister: Admiralty House

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 26 September 2025 to Question HL9585 on Deputy Prime Minister: Admiralty House, when it was registered as a second home.

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 24 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 28 Oct 2025
Answer: 10 Nov 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 26 September 2025 to Question HL9585 on Deputy Prime Minister: Admiralty House, when it was registered as a second home.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
As the property was a second residence, the Government was responsible for paying the Council Tax on Admiralty House, not the former Deputy Prime Minister - in line with long-standing precedent under successive governments.As has been the case under succe...

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