Dwellings Occupied by Students with Council Tax Exemptions, by Local Authority (2014-2024): FOI release

Information requested

“The number of properties that used an exemption from Council Tax because they:

A: Were students' halls of residence

B: Were occupied only by students or students and their non-British spouses, civil partners or dependants

…for each Scottish local authority for the past ten years.”

Response

The Scottish Government does collect data from local authorities in Scotland on:

• dwellings occupied by students with council tax exemptions; and
• halls of residence with council tax exemptions.

The attached Excel workbook shows the two tables compiled from data gathered from councils in each of the last ten years, which shows:

• Dwellings occupied by students with Council Tax Exemptions
• Halls of residence with Council Tax Exemptions.

It should be noted that this specific subset of Council Tax data collected from councils is not routinely published by the Scottish Government. As such, itis not subject to the same validation checks used in our regularly published data. Accounting for this, you may see some figures that appear to be anomalies (notably, the 2022 dwellings figure for City of Edinburgh will appear as an outlier). Please bear this caveat in mind when using and observing these figures.

However, as the collection was an aggregate collection of dwellings occupied by students, we do not hold information on the spouses, civil partners or dependants of those students. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have all of the information you have requested. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

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FOI 202400435931 - Information Released - Spreadsheet

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Excel document

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