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.
About this written question
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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
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.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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