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

• N/A

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

Housing

• Limit on annual rent increases 2024-25 – from April 2024 (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limit-on-annual-rent-increases-2024-25-from-april-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=96d04149-c4a7-4c7e-88ef-dfcd32919aec&utm_content=daily.

• Limit on annual rent increases from April 2023 - March 2024 (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limit-on-annual-rent-increases-from-april-2023-march-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=19c8e1f9-10eb-4b49-ad7d-836bc3281a47&utm_content=daily.

• Making a formal application for an exemption to the Rent Standard - from 1 April 2020 (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-a-formal-application-for-an-exemption-to-the-rent-standard-from-1-april-2020?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=c2354506-e1cd-46ee-bf30-1141adac8136&utm_content=daily.

• Local authority guidance for formal applications to disapply government rent policy (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-guidance-for-formal-applications-to-disapply-government-rent-policy?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=6ef3799e-2be7-4389-a740-f28d61405236&utm_content=daily.

• Housing supply: indicators of new supply, England: October to December 2023 (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/housing-supply-indicators-of-new-supply-england-october-to-december-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=d20ed3f5-f3e4-4d7d-8833-4d5ff3b2caa4&utm_content=daily.

• Live tables on social housing sales (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=771ef092-5732-43d7-abcf-733b18cee689&utm_content=daily.

• Live tables on housing supply: indicators of new supply (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=e9a85928-b9a0-4067-a259-e08af42d7be2&utm_content=daily.

• Live tables on dwelling stock (including vacants) (28 March 2024)
  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=c91b6f96-7fd6-48c1-8a24-ab58c4818166&utm_content=daily.

• Competence and Conduct Standard for social housing: consultation (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/competence-and-conduct-standard-for-social-housing-consultation?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=e6984441-fc8d-4c54-aec9-713b97860162&utm_content=daily.

• Jointly owned leasehold properties​ (27 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/jointly-owned-leasehold-properties?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=ef2d0955-6d7c-4b55-a69c-c32471a35625&utm_content=daily.

Local Government Finance

• Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report (25 March2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-distress-in-local-authorities-government-response-to-the-select-committee-report?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=a101e6de-c12c-419a-8e0a-bad3203791fa&utm_content=daily.

Non-Domestic Rate

• National non-domestic rates: guidance for billing authorities (26 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-non-domestic-rates-guidance-for-billing-authorities?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=75936e78-70fe-48cc-a201-d1f17a21881c&utm_content=daily.

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

Miscellaneous

• Long-Term Plan for Towns: data packs for 55 towns (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-plan-for-towns-data-packs-for-55-towns?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=e4bfc2ac-0c71-410d-8f30-f767b46e71fc&utm_content=daily.

• Long-Term Plan for Towns: Technical Q&A (28 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-plan-for-towns-technical-qa?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=ba94ad4c-cc5c-490a-aaae-0534571c91f7&utm_content=daily.

• Local growth programmes privacy notices (27 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-growth-programmes-privacy-notices?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=c481dafc-d13d-48c9-a365-edef7dea08b3&utm_content=daily.

• English institutions with devolved powers: Plain English guidance (26 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-institutions-with-devolved-powers-plain-english-guidance?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=185700aa-251b-48ae-8de3-afdd71f26d55&utm_content=daily.

• Letter from DLUHC Secretary of State to the Oflog Chief Executive on managing without a Chair (26 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-dluhc-secretary-of-state-to-the-oflog-chief-executive-on-managing-without-a-chair?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=89c99b53-4096-4900-9dee-e110f2d45298&utm_content=daily.

• Supporting Families - a foundation for family help: Annual report of the Supporting Families programme 2023-2024 (26 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-families-a-foundation-for-family-help-annual-report-of-the-supporting-families-programme-2023-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=a443cdc8-89a0-4dc7-852e-3f9450b4b7dc&utm_content=daily.

• Devolution and mayors: what does it mean? (26 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/devolution-and-mayors-what-does-it-mean?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=386c65b1-8245-4810-a5af-857bff716814&utm_content=daily.

• Election expenses privacy notice (25 March 2024)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/election-expenses-privacy-notice?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=92fa8c27-ffd7-4950-a79d-47e3e91cd4e9&utm_content=daily.

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=9061db36-db4b-4eb9-8343-1bd815766332&utm_content=daily.