Council Housing

(asked on 21st January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the thresholds for council homes to be taken into account when calculating the levy on councils contained in part 4 of the Housing and Planning Bill.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 27th January 2016

The Housing and Planning Bill requires the Secretary of State to define 'high value' in regulations.

We are currently in the process of updating data that will be used to help inform the high value threshold. Further details will be available shortly.

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