Question follow-through · 20627
Almshouses: Affordable Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to allow almshouses to secure funding as affordable housing providers.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to allow almshouses to secure funding as affordable housing providers.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2025
Answer published
As part of the recent consultation on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework, the government sought views on whether changes were needed to the definition of ‘affordable housing for rent’ to make it easier for organisations that are no...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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