Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 8190

Social Services: Finance

Tabled: 9 October 2024
Answered: 18 October 2024

Question

Mrs Kemi Badenoch

ConservativeNorth West Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) it remains her Department's policy to retain the social care precept on council tax and (b) past social care precepts will continue to be ring-fenced; and what plans

Answer

Jim McMahon
The Government is committed to keeping taxes on working people as low as possible. Future decisions on council tax will be taken at the spending review in which we are fully engaged.