Stamp Duty Land Tax: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 18th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of a one per cent surcharge on non-UK resident homebuyers on trends in the level of (a) homelessness and (b) affordable housing provision.


Answered by
Heather Wheeler Portrait
Heather Wheeler
This question was answered on 21st March 2019

No assessment has been made on the potential impact of a one per cent surcharge on non-UK resident home buyers on the trends in the level of homelessness or affordable housing provision. This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. Already, this has provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff – this means there are more people in warm beds tonight as direct result of government funding.

In all, the Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.

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