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Housing Revenue Accounts: Fiscal Policy

Question for Treasury

UIN 900940, tabled on 23 October 2024

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding the council Housing Revenue Account from debt-targeted fiscal rules.

Answered on

29 October 2024

Councils’ Housing Revenue Accounts are a significant part of local authority and public sector finances, and it would not be right to exclude this activity from our fiscal rules.

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Treasury
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