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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2016 to Questions 26101 and 29935, if he will publish the data referred to in the latter Answer as the basis for the statement that even if all authorities increase council tax by the maximum under the referendum principles, it will be lower in 2019-20 in real terms compared to 2010.

The data underlying the statement is:

a) the published DCLG council tax levels to 2015-16 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/council-tax-levels-set-by-local-authorities-in-england-2015-to-2016 (table 9, and equivalent for earlier years) and
b) the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of the Consumer Price Index at: http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/download/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-supplementary-economy-tables-november-2015/ (table 1.7).