Question follow-through · 30100
Home Insurance: Landlords
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring landlords to hold buildings insurance for properties owned outright.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 20 Feb 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 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 landlords to hold buildings insurance for properties owned outright.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Feb 2025
Answer published
The government has no plans to require landlords to hold buildings insurance for properties owned outright. Building owners are responsible for ensuring that buildings have appropriate buildings insurance in place.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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