Question follow-through · 18291
Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the amount of social housing available for families in need of housing support who need four or more bedrooms.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the amount of social housing available for families in need of housing support who need four or more bedrooms.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
Data is collected on the number of households on local authority housing registers requiring three or more bedrooms. This stood at 69,434 as of 31 March 2024. Data on households requiring four or more bedrooms is not collected but will be a subset of this...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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