Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Cabinet Office’s policy of the Government paying the council tax bill of a Minister in an official residence applies to Ministers whose primary residence is neither their constituency address nor their official residence address.

The Government's policy on official residences and council tax is unchanged.

Ministers are responsible for paying council tax where an official residence is their primary residence.

For government owned properties which are official residences, the Government is responsible for the payment of the council tax where a Minister resides there on a second homes basis.