questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) empty home premiums on council tax, (b) second home premiums on council tax and (c) planning conditions against the use of new build homes as secondary residences on (i) house prices and (ii) housing markets in (A) England and (B) Wales.
answerText: The use of council tax premiums is at local authorities’ discretion. The government does collect data on the use of premiums and number of empty and second homes, which is published in the government’s council taxbase statistics. However, it does not make...
heading: Empty Property: Council Tax