Question follow-through · 15526
Housing: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will amend guidance on homelessness hostel exemption to recognise asylum accommodation as an exemption from the shared accommodation rate.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2024 · 5 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
21 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will amend guidance on homelessness hostel exemption to recognise asylum accommodation as an exemption from the shared accommodation rate.
26 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2024
Answer published
We are aware of the challenge some people face in finding shared accommodation, and we are working across government to find appropriate solutions including engaging with the newly formed Inter-Ministerial Group on tackling homelessness and rough sleeping...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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