Taxation: Holiday Accommodation
Treasury
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Tobias Ellwood (- Shadow Minister, Culture, Media and Sport; Bournemouth East, Conservative)
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer
(1) how many people were granted relief under the furnished holiday letting rules in respect of an occupancy rate claim of (a) 10, (b) 15, (c) 20 and (d) 25 weeks and over in the 2007-08 tax year;
(2) what taxation arrangements will apply to owners of (a) self-catering cottages and (b) bed and breakfast establishments following the proposed changes to the furnished holiday letting rules.
Stephen Timms (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; East Ham, Labour)
I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on