Question follow-through · 9097

Housing: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent local authorities from bidding for housing stock outside of their own areas.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
16 Oct 2024
Answer
23 Oct 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent local authorities from bidding for housing stock outside of their own areas.

  2. 16 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The government has no current plans to bring forward legislative proposals to prevent local authorities from bidding for housing stock outside of their own areas.Local authorities are best placed to consider ways in which they can increase their stock and...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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