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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2019-10-17more like thismore than 2019-10-17
answering body
Treasury more like this
answering dept id 14 more like this
answering dept short name Treasury more like this
answering dept sort name Treasury remove filter
hansard heading Stamp Duty Land Tax: Foreign Nationals more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is still the Government's policy to allocate taxes raised by the stamp duty surcharge on overseas property investors to fund programmes to tackle rough sleeping. more like this
tabling member constituency Vale of Clwyd more like this
tabling member printed
Chris Ruane more like this
uin 1587 more like this
answer
answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2019-10-22more like thismore than 2019-10-22
answer text <p>At Budget 2018, the Government announced it would consult on a new Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) surcharge of 1% on non-UK residents buying residential property in England and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>This measure is designed to help control house price growth, and to ensure that those resident in the UK can get on the housing ladder.</p><p> </p><p>The revenue raised by the surcharge will be used to tackle rough sleeping alongside the £422 million funding announced at the 2019 Spending Review, in addition to the £1.2 billion the Government committed to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in the last Spending Review period.</p><p> </p><p>The Government consulted on the surcharge earlier this year and is considering the responses.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire more like this
answering member printed Jesse Norman more like this
question first answered
less than 2019-10-22T15:07:56.36Zmore like thismore than 2019-10-22T15:07:56.36Z
answering member
3991
label Biography information for Jesse Norman more like this
tabling member
534
label Biography information for Chris Ruane more like this