NEWSLETTERS

The latest newsletters (including the Council Tax Information Letter published on 30 March 2023 and the Non-Domestic Rate Information Letter published on 31 March 2023) can be found at:-

• Council Tax: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-tax-information-letters.

• Non-Domestic Rate: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/business-rates-information-letters.

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COLLECTION RATES

England

• 2022/23
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2022-to-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=6fafec69-1f5b-4c06-8dcd-28cf2a0475b8&utm_content=daily..

Scotland

• 2022/23
  https://www.gov.scot/news/council-tax-collection-statistics-2022-23/.

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GOV.UK ALERTS

Council Tax

• Collection rates for Council Tax and non-domestic rates in England, 2022 to 2023 (21 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2022-to-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=6fafec69-1f5b-4c06-8dcd-28cf2a0475b8&utm_content=daily.

Housing

• Revised directions to Regulator of Social Housing: tenant involvement and mutual exchange (23 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/revised-directions-to-regulator-of-social-housing-tenant-involvement-and-mutual-exchange?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=28e2e565-7915-442d-9ec5-8fefea613f6e&utm_content=daily.

• High street rental auctions (22 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/high-street-rental-auctions?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=8a64e759-c064-4a7b-853b-5248323a4b8f&utm_content=daily.

• Exempt accommodation: government response to the Select Committee report (21 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exempt-accommodation-government-response-to-the-select-committee-report?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=f6c275ce-050a-4a2e-ad29-f6a4b63bf242&utm_content=daily.

• Selective licensing in the private rented sector: a guide for local authorities (20 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-licensing-in-the-private-rented-sector-a-guide-for-local-authorities?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=10553b21-4a8b-4d2c-b590-4bdaae1891d0&utm_content=daily.

Local Government Finance

• Unacceptably high backlog in local government audit system may get worse before improving (23 June 2023)
  https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/195918/unacceptably-high-backlog-in-local-government-audit-system-may-get-worse-before-improving/.

• Live tables on local government finance (22 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-local-government-finance?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=d1ce526e-d30b-4656-a422-0e753d2b19f4&utm_content=daily.

• Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2023 to 2024 budget individual local authority data (22 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2023-to-2024-budget-individual-local-authority-data?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=2138fb3f-6b03-41b7-ad05-91c3267136a7&utm_content=daily.

• Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2023-24 budget (22 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-2023-24-budget-england?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=2ad1094b-bafa-47e7-9adf-6c7ef89e9f36&utm_content=daily.

• Local authority capital expenditure and receipts in England: 2022 to 2023 provisional outturn and 2023 to 2024 forecast (22 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-capital-expenditure-and-receipts-in-england-2022-to-2023-provisional-outturn-and-2023-to-2024-forecast?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=ed45f89a-2653-4674-a31c-d0d7b07778a5&utm_content=daily.

• Local authority capital expenditure and financing in England: 2023 to 2024 individual local authority data forecast (22 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-capital-expenditure-and-financing-in-england-2023-to-2024-individual-local-authority-data-forecast?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=9d78ba5b-7adf-4a6d-b316-4dfb75e7017a&utm_content=daily.

• Levelling Up Fund: Impact evaluation scoping report (19 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-fund-impact-evaluation-scoping-report?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=68107a68-4fbf-4aa1-9778-ef9191c98b5d&utm_content=daily.

Non-Domestic Rate

• Collection rates for Council Tax and non-domestic rates in England, 2022 to 2023 (21 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2022-to-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=6fafec69-1f5b-4c06-8dcd-28cf2a0475b8&utm_content=daily.

• Lords considers Non-Domestic Rating Bill (20 June 2023)
  https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2023/june-2023/lords-consider-non-domestic-rating-bill/.

Miscellaneous

• Devolution: Guidance for civil servants (21 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/devolution-guidance-for-civil-servants?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=f8b1d61b-371a-4e2a-8812-334d1592eef7&utm_content=daily.

• Revised draft Electoral Commission Strategy and Policy Statement (19 June 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-draft-electoral-commission-strategy-and-policy-statement?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=97fe6f84-1257-48a6-831d-52ebeeb057b5&utm_content=daily.