Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of payment of council tax in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.

In-year collection rates for council tax in England have remained consistently high and, for 2018-19, were 97.0 per cent. The Government publishes statistics on council tax collection over time at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2018-to-2019 . Local government finance is a devolved matter in Scotland and Wales.