Question follow-through · 4160
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact on levels of homelessness of unfreezing local housing allowance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact on levels of homelessness of unfreezing local housing allowance.
5 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government recognises that homelessness levels are too high and there are a range of contributing factors. We will look carefully at these issues as we develop our strategy for ending homelessness. Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates have not been fro...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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