Question follow-through · 14991
Local Housing Allowance: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of not increasing Local Housing Allowance rates in 2025-26 on the number of households requiring temporary accommodation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 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
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of not increasing Local Housing Allowance rates in 2025-26 on the number of households requiring temporary accommodation.
21 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 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. When reviewing the Local Housing Allowance (LHA), the...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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