Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 10490

Council Tax: Single People

Tabled: 22 October 2024
Answered: 30 October 2024

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UK — Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people claimed the single-person discount on council tax in the latest period for which data is available; and what the cost to the public purse was of this discount in

Answer

Jim McMahon
The latest available data for October 2023 shows there were approximately 8.6 million households in receipt of a single person discount. This data is available here - Council Taxbase 2023 in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The Government does not collect d...
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