NEWSLETTERS

The latest newsletters 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. 

GOV.UK ALERTS

Council Tax

• Council tax – councils should not be chasing arrears from households that can least afford it, say MPs (1 December 2023)
  https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/17/levelling-up-housing-and-communities-committee/news/198739/council-tax-councils-should-not-be-chasing-arrears-from-households-that-can-least-afford-it-say-mps/.

Note: Further alerts on Council Tax can be found under the section ‘VALUATION OFFICE AGENCY / SCOTTISH ASSESSOR / LAND AND PROPERTY SERVICES (NI)’.

Housing

• Local authority data: housing supply (1 December 2023)
  https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/local-authority-data-housing-supply/.

• Tables on rough sleeping (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tables-on-rough-sleeping?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=e7144faa-2724-44d3-be53-d66f01e74f0d&utm_content=daily.

• Statutory homelessness in England: April to June 2023 (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-april-to-june-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=e0bd8a2a-0335-4598-959d-37f4314e5d21&utm_content=daily.

• Affordable housing supply in England: 2022 to 2023 (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/affordable-housing-supply-in-england-2022-to-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=25a3f3e3-a127-4ab1-9b36-c03f337aaec7&utm_content=daily.

• Local authority housing statistics data returns for 2022 to 2023 (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2022-to-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=68911c30-40d6-48c8-bb73-6321130b0eea&utm_content=daily.

• Live tables on affordable housing supply (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=0d24ce96-f981-45ff-8331-c68cc1c37057&utm_content=daily.

• Ending Rough Sleeping Data Framework, September 2023 (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ending-rough-sleeping-data-framework-september-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=545f0699-0a32-46e6-b4b1-fb4f92566000&utm_content=daily.

• Support for people sleeping rough in England, June 2023 (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/support-for-people-sleeping-rough-in-england-june-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=c194721a-0785-4e26-9e8b-b17515d38e16&utm_content=daily.

• Dashboards on homelessness (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dashboards-on-homelessness?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=3ffc4fcc-6816-4e62-a968-924ef550c2b2&utm_content=daily.

• Tables on homelessness (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=9a3d2c5c-f69b-49ce-a5c5-1517147b82ea&utm_content=daily.

• Live tables on dwelling stock (including vacants) (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=7aeb0be9-aec4-498b-80ed-8faeb507c373&utm_content=daily.

• Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England: 2022 to 2023 (29 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/housing-supply-net-additional-dwellings-england-2022-to-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=277a63a1-1c16-442a-b478-84f5714d381a&utm_content=daily.

• Live tables on housing supply: net additional dwellings (29 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-net-supply-of-housing?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=2e6acb60-e15e-4c3e-86ba-2b4a3f389f86&utm_content=daily.

• Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme: funding allocations (28 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/single-homelessness-accommodation-programme-funding-allocations?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=c22cf0af-2363-405a-93c7-42649e47ec1e&utm_content=daily.

• Leasehold valuation, enfranchisement and the right to manage (27 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/leasehold-valuation-enfranchisement-and-the-right-to-manage?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=1c646de8-805b-47dc-97d1-5ee1e5feeab2&utm_content=daily.

• Reforming the leasehold and commonhold systems in England and Wales (27 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reforming-the-leasehold-and-commonhold-systems-in-england-and-wales?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=035e3bd2-12e0-4455-b3e1-1bd3e300790b&utm_content=daily.

Local Government Finance

• Drug strategy housing support funding: allocations 2022 to 2025 (29 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-strategy-housing-support-funding-allocations-2022-to-2025?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=7eb0be29-0429-4af8-b83a-fd1e68832627&utm_content=daily.

• European Social Fund: case studies (28 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/european-social-fund-case-studies?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=0cda4d08-1c08-42a3-b95e-ad0026fde800&utm_content=daily.

• Financial distress in local authorities – Levelling Up Committee Chair raises concerns with Secretary of State (28 November 2023)
  https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/17/levelling-up-housing-and-communities-committee/news/198707/financial-distress-in-local-authorities-levelling-up-committee-chair-raises-concerns-with-secretary-of-state/.

• Public health grants to local authorities: 2023 to 2024 (27 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-health-grants-to-local-authorities-2023-to-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=43507888-e8ef-44c3-bc80-164dbb94dbec&utm_content=daily.

Non-Domestic Rate

• N/A

Note: Further alerts on Non-Domestic Rate can be found under the Section ‘VALUATION OFFICE AGENCY / SCOTTISH ASSESSOR / LAND AND PROPERTY SERVICES (NI)’.

Miscellaneous

• Erewash Borough Council: Local Plan intervention letter (1 December 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/erewash-borough-council-local-plan-intervention-letter?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=cd4dd494-93c5-48d3-950b-16748463aa61&utm_content=daily.

• Government response to the Electoral Commission’s report on the May 2023 local elections (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-electoral-commissions-report-on-the-may-2023-local-elections?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=af9770be-0bc6-4206-8b44-3ace18ef4e30&utm_content=daily.

• Evaluation of the Electoral Integrity Programme: public opinion research data tables (waves 1 and 2) (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-the-electoral-integrity-programme-public-opinion-research-data-tables-waves-1-and-2?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=58745be6-cb4e-44ed-b723-998b314d894d&utm_content=daily.

• Evaluation of the Electoral Integrity Programme: Year 1 Report (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-the-electoral-integrity-programme-year-1-report?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=20e05fa4-409e-4874-9a0c-e8966e90e931&utm_content=daily.

• DLUHC: gender pay gap report and data 2023 (30 November 2023)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dluhc-gender-pay-gap-report-and-data-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=a3a252b5-6c10-448f-9c11-f2c35e181a6e&utm_content=daily.

• Devolution to local government in England (29 November 2023)
  https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn07029/.

COLLECTION RATES 2022/23

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

• Wales
  https://www.gov.wales/council-tax-collection-rates-april-2022-march-2023. 

ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2022/23

The Annual Report and Accounts 2022/23 of DLUHC can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dluhc-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=82082024-f2a4-4d37-979f-a8bf13af6582&utm_content=daily.