Question follow-through · 6049
Council Tax: Second Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he will publish the number of second homes, and any other relevant statistical assumptions, that the Department has used for each of the next three financial years (2026/
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he will publish the number of second homes, and any other relevant statistical assumptions, that the Department has used for each of the next three financial years (2026/
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department does not identify the number of second homes in forecasts of council tax base, or calculations of the Local Government Finance Settlement. Council tax base figures are used in the calculation of local authorities’ Fair Funding Allocations w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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