Question follow-through · 19776
Affordable Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to prioritise the allocation of affordable housing to UK citizens.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
- Housing: Ashfield · 9 Jan 2025
- Local Government: Ashfield · 30 Jan 2025
- Local Government: Reorganisation · 30 Jan 2025
- Local Government: Elections · 6 Feb 2025
- Local Government: Elections · 6 Feb 2025
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to prioritise the allocation of affordable housing to UK citizens.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
Eligibility for social housing is already tightly controlled. If a person’s visa means that they cannot access state benefits or local authority housing assistance, they are not eligible for an allocation of social housing. Migrants arriving in the UK on ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Housing: Ashfield
9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to help (a) first-time buyers and (b) low-income families secure housing in Ashfield constituency.
Local Government: Ashfield
30 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with Ashfield District Council about phase one of the local government re-organisation.
Local Government: Reorganisation
30 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish a timetable for local government re-organisation.
Local Government: Elections
6 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy that local authority areas which have had elections postponed in May 2025 will have elections in May 2026.
Local Government: Elections
6 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the conversations and negotiations which she had in order to determine which elections were to be postponed.
Local Government: Elections
10 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with (a) local authority officers and (b) local authority elected representatives on the cancellation of local elections in East Sussex; and if she w
Local Government: Elections
10 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with (a) local authority officers and (b) local authority elected representatives on the cancellation of the local elections in West Sussex, and if s
Absent Voting: Fraud
11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help prevent postal vote fraud.
Council Tax
13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason she increased council tax referendum thresholds.
Local Authority Housing Fund
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether public funds will be made available to Palestinians granted the right to settle in the UK via the Local Authorities Housing Fund.
Local Government: Remote Working
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that council staff are unable to work from abroad.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Expenditure
13 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has been spent on projects that have not been launched in each of the last five years.