Question follow-through · 107994
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the potential effect of the planned increases in landfill duty on housebuilding.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the potential effect of the planned increases in landfill duty on housebuilding.
27 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2026
Answer published
The government carefully considered the impact of reforms to landfill tax on rates of housebuilding and took account of the feedback received to the consultation carried out last year. As a result, the government set out a plan to prevent the gap between ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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