Visitor Levy: Camping Sites and Music Festivals
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the overnight visitor levy will apply to (a) glamping and (b) camping sites at music festivals, such as Glastonbury.
Answered by Alison McGovern
The new visitor levy will be a discretionary power for Mayors in England, and there are no plans for visitor levy revenue to be subject to equalisation.
In the recent consultation, which closed on 18 February, the Government proposed that the levy would apply to short-term commercially let accommodation. Policy development is still ongoing, and the Government will publish its official response in due course.
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