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The number of residential properties in the UK valued at more than £2 million was estimated before Budget 2012 to be around 55,000.<\/p>
<\/p>
Before Budget 2012, an assessment of the average annual payment required from each property above £2 million in order to raise a net sum of £2 billion per annum was not made.<\/p>
<\/p>
On 1 July 2013, during Report stage of the Finance Bill, I referred to \u201ca simple calculation arrived at by dividing £2 billion by 55,000 (an internal HMRC estimate of the number of properties valued at over £2 million) to give a \u2018mean' average of £36,000.\u201d<\/p>
<\/p>
A so-called mansion tax would depress stamp duty land tax and inheritance tax yields. The exact impact would be dependent on the rates and bands chosen.<\/p>
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The number of residential properties in the UK valued at more than £2 million was estimated before Budget 2012 to be around 55,000.<\/p>
<\/p>
Before Budget 2012, an assessment of the average annual payment required from each property above £2 million in order to raise a net sum of £2 billion per annum was not made.<\/p>
<\/p>
On 1 July 2013, during Report stage of the Finance Bill, I referred to \u201ca simple calculation arrived at by dividing £2 billion by 55,000 (an internal HMRC estimate of the number of properties valued at over £2 million) to give a \u2018mean' average of £36,000.\u201d<\/p>
<\/p>
A so-called mansion tax would depress stamp duty land tax and inheritance tax yields. The exact impact would be dependent on the rates and bands chosen.<\/p>
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The number of residential properties in the UK valued at more than £2 million was estimated before Budget 2012 to be around 55,000.<\/p>
<\/p>
Before Budget 2012, an assessment of the average annual payment required from each property above £2 million in order to raise a net sum of £2 billion per annum was not made.<\/p>
<\/p>
On 1 July 2013, during Report stage of the Finance Bill, I referred to \u201ca simple calculation arrived at by dividing £2 billion by 55,000 (an internal HMRC estimate of the number of properties valued at over £2 million) to give a \u2018mean' average of £36,000.\u201d<\/p>
<\/p>
A so-called mansion tax would depress stamp duty land tax and inheritance tax yields. The exact impact would be dependent on the rates and bands chosen.<\/p>
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<\/p>
To assist public scrutiny, I have placed in the Library of the House, a table showing homelessness acceptances due to loss of private sector tenancy, by local authority, in each year from 2003 to 2013.<\/p>
Data is not collected by Parliamentary constituency. My Department does not publish statistics by the former government office regions.<\/p>
The dataset shows that under the last Administration, the average numbers were higher than under this Administration, especially when taking account the changes in the overall size to the private rented sector.<\/p>
I would note that the rental sector policies of HM Opposition would make the problem worse, by reducing the availability of private rented accommodation, forcing up rents and discouraging investment in the private rented sector. By contrast, this Government is increasing house building, delivering £19.5 billion of investment in affordable housing, supporting billions of private investment in new private rented accommodation, providing £470 million to prevent and tackle all forms of homelessness, and avoiding the excessive regulation which would harm the interests of tenants.<\/p>
<\/strong><\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) men and (b) women convicted of benefit fraud in each of the last five years received a prison sentence; and what the average prison sentence was for those of each gender so convicted.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women convicted of benefit fraud in each of the last five years received (i) a conditional discharge, (ii) a fine, (iii) a community order and (iv) a suspended prison sentence.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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