Question follow-through · 23645
Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) support for homeless people and (b) the criteria by which those at risk of homelessness are deemed vulnerable.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Rented Housing: Mould · 12 Feb 2025
- Property Development: Water · 21 Feb 2025
- National Parks: Planning Permission · 27 Mar 2025
- Agriculture: Planning Permission · 28 Apr 2025
- Social Rented Housing · 12 May 2025
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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
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 adequacy of (a) support for homeless people and (b) the criteria by which those at risk of homelessness are deemed vulnerable.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
Homelessness levels are far too high and this Government is taking action to deliver long term solutions. As announced at the Budget, funding for homelessness services is increasing next year by £233 million compared to this year (2024/25), bringing total...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Rented Housing: Mould
12 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to address the failures in remedial work to combat mould in rented properties, in the context of the associated health risks.
Property Development: Water
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) ingress and (b) egress routes for water in new building developments.
National Parks: Planning Permission
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of planning applications without clear necessity on the boundaries of national parks on those areas.
Agriculture: Planning Permission
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of restricting permitted development rights for (a) caravans and (b) temporary installations on agricultural land to cases
Social Rented Housing
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help increase social housing supply through the Spending Review.
Temporary Accommodation: Finance
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to reduce the cost of temporary accommodation for local authorities through the Spending Review.
Affordable Housing
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to legally redefine the term affordable housing to be linked to social rent.
Supported Housing
1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that supported housing demand is met.
Disadvantaged: Rural Areas
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the English indices of deprivation to include rurality as a factor.
Regional Planning and Development: South West
27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to allocate funding to the Great South West Partnership after April 2026.
Brownfield Sites
19 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support and encouragement the Government is giving to local authorities to fast-track planning applications for developments on brownfield sites.
Housing
11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress he has made on the long-term housing strategy; and when he plans to publish that strategy.