Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 23 February 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 20 January 2010, Official Report, column 378W, on council tax, what types of council tax discount are made available by each individual local authority; and what the monetary value was of such discounts in the latest period for which figures are available.
Details of the types of local council tax discounts awarded as at October 5 2009, and the authority awarding the discount, are shown as follows.
Pensioners: Bury, Hillingdon, Kirklees, Lincoln, Southampton, Wirral
Properties affected by flooding and other external environmental factors: Doncaster, East Lindsey, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Herefordshire UA, Hillingdon, Malvern Hills, North Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Rotherham, Wakefield, Wychavon
Those to whom, because they have been affected by the change in regulations since a discount was originally awarded, a discount has been awarded so as to not disadvantage them: Adur, Exeter, Horsham, North Norfolk, Waveney
The following types of local council tax discounts were also awarded as at
A hard to sell property
A new unfinished property
Difficult to let properties
Hardship
Occupied and unoccupied furnished properties that do not have the benefit of mains services including beach chalets.
Properties that are no one person's sole or main residence where access is restricted taxpayers who can comply with the council's Mooring Policy.
Various classes of empty properties.
These discounts were awarded by the following authorities. It is not possible to identify which authority awarded which discount as this may allow identification of individual properties or persons.
Bradford
Cambridge
Canterbury
Copeland
Daventry
Details of the monetary value of these discounts are not collected centrally.
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