Question follow-through · 34103
Local Housing Allowance: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the cap on Local Housing Allowance payable for temporary accommodation through the Housing Benefit subsidy system.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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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
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the cap on Local Housing Allowance payable for temporary accommodation through the Housing Benefit subsidy system.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
We continue to keep the rates used for Housing Benefit subsidy under review. We are working closely with MHCLG and the Inter-Ministerial Group on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping to explore the impacts of subsidy rates on local authorities and develop long...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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