Question follow-through · 23607
Social Rented Housing: Rents
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring social housing providers to refer tenants to a local debt advice service before serving them with an eviction
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring social housing providers to refer tenants to a local debt advice service before serving them with an eviction
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The government is clear that social landlords should seek to sustain tenancies and should only evict as a last resort.Landlords will, when managing their social housing schemes, provide advice and assistance to those struggling financially, including sign...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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