Question follow-through · 6630
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to end local authority competitive bidding.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to end local authority competitive bidding.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government was elected on a manifesto that stressed a partnership approach with local authorities and an intention to stabilise the funding system, moving away from wasteful competition and towards multi-year funding settlements.We want to have better...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Private Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights
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Private Rented Housing: Construction
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Social Rented Housing: Construction
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Homelessness
10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many times officials from her Department have met with homelessness sector stakeholders since July 2024.
Homelessness: Departmental Coordination
10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to consult the homelessness sector on the work of the development of a cross-departmental strategy for ending homelessness.
Homelessness: Departmental Coordination
10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) formal role and (b) ongoing involvement she will have in the (i) formulation and (ii) implementation of a cross-departmental strategy for ending homelessness.
Homelessness
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Temporary Accommodation: Infant Mortality
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of standards of temporary accommodation on child infant mortality.