PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Council Tax: Single People (22 October 2024)

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 the same period.

Asked by:
Lee Anderson (Reform UK)

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 data on the revenue foregone to provide the discount.

Answered by:
Jim McMahon (Labour)
30 October 2024