Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23909 on Council tax, whether Band D council tax set by the local authority will be taken into account in the assumed council tax metric; and how the taxbase will be calculated for precepting bodies which are not a local billing authority.

We are currently analysing the responses to the consultation on funding reform which ran from 18 December 2024 – 12 February 2025 and sought views on how we will account for differences in locally raised resources. A response has not yet been published, but the consultation does not propose that the Band D level set by a local authority will be accounted for in the assumed council tax metric. It is standard practice to calculate the taxbase of precepting authorities using the taxbases of the billing authorities in its area, and the consultation did not propose to change this.