| Heading: |
Armed Forces: Council Tax |
| Question ID: |
1786555 |
| UIN: |
39758 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5313 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Zöe Franklin
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| Asking Member handle: |
zoefranklinld
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@zoefranklinld
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure serving personnel who are posted away on operational duties and have a property in the UK are able to receive council tax discounts; and how his Department ensures pe |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-26 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5235 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Al Carns
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Al Carns
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| Answer text: |
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) pays a tax-free allowance called Council Tax Relief for certain Service personnel on specified operations or assignments. In 2011, the MOD doubled the rate from 25 per cent to 50 per cent, under the auspices of the Armed Forc... |
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| Answering body ID: |
11 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Defence |
| Tweeted: |
true |