Question follow-through · 2895
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to ensure local housing allowance keeps pace with median rent prices.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to ensure local housing allowance keeps pace with median rent prices.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Local Housing Allowance (LHA) determines the maximum housing support for tenants in the private rented sector. Households in similar circumstances living in the same area are entitled to the same maximum rent allowance regardless of the contractual re...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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