Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat), on Thursday, 5 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 59 members in total.

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TENANT TAX

That this House notes that the current Housing Revenue Account Subsidy system means that this year local authorities will lose ??756 million from council tenants' rent; further notes that ??195 million of this rent will be retained by the Treasury and will not be spent on social housing; recognises that this sytem of negative subsidy prevents local authorities from investing sufficiently in maintaining social housing and in building new social homes to rent; further recognises the fundamental unfairness of expecting families on low incomes in one part of the country to subsidise those on low incomes elsewhere; believes that shortfalls in funding should be made up from general taxation not tax on tenants; and calls on the Government to allow local authorities to retain tenants' rent in order to reinvest in social housing in the local area.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

712 

Session

2008-09

Other sponsors

Jeremy Corbyn

David Leslie Taylor

Julia Goldsworthy

John Leech

Adrian Sanders

Subjects

Social rented housing

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk