Question follow-through · 15404
Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of levels of Housing Benefit subsidy on the capacity of local authorities to meet their statutory homelessness duties.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Housing Benefit: Temporary Accommodation · 14 May 2025
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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
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of levels of Housing Benefit subsidy on the capacity of local authorities to meet their statutory homelessness duties.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
We recognise the financial pressures which local authorities are experiencing. MHCLG are increasing funding for homelessness services from next year by £233 million compared to this year (2024/25). Levels of Housing Benefit subsidy for temporary accommoda...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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